Texas' Big Freeze: The 2021 Power Crisis and the Lessons ...
Jan 25, 2022 · Texas generates nearly 45% of its electricity from natural gas. ERCOT’s final seasonal assessment of resource adequacy for the 2021-2022 winter said there will be sufficient installed generating capacity to serve forecast peak demand (62,001 MW) assuming “typical winter grid conditions”. Lake said the scenarios run by NERC used to write ...
Dominion's New Online Map Makes it Easier to Track Power …
Sep 23, 2015 · Dominion Virginia Power has introduced a new online interactive outage map that provides more streamlined, detailed information to enable customers to quickly report and accurately track power outages and restoration. "Next to energy, the most important thing we can provide to customers is information," said Becky Merritt, vice president of Customer Service.
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5 days ago · Mitsubishi, Quanta, Private-Equity Player Add to Transformer Investment Boom. Oct. 31, 2024. New York firm Mill Point has acquired two businesses from Pioneer Power Solutions and ERMCO to launch an electrical products manufacturer called Voltaris. Utility Business.
Underground Cable Design Principles to Strengthen the Critical ...
May 1, 2020 · This article discusses eight categories of underground power cable components and/or design principles to harden the grid, therefore improving natural disaster resilience. 1. Water-blocking Components. Water contains oxidizing agents, which trigger the corrosion of metallic shields and conductors. As a result, a “triple-water protection ...
Strategic Undergrounding from the Perspective of Cable …
Oct 4, 2021 · It is manufactured by continuously extruding a crush and impact resistant HDPE conduit over a single cable or a parallel cable assembly. CIC might contain one cable or three-phase cables, but we have seen up to 4 cable components with a spare or an added equipment grounding conductor being designed using CIC.
Navigating the Complexities Involved with NERC | T&D World
Jan. 3, 2024. Learn the requirements, and comply, to avoid getting fined and/or sanctioned and, most importantly, keep the grid safe, secure and reliable. Tom Carpenter. NERC is an acronym that stands for the North American Electric Reliability Corporation, and if you work in the electric utility industry in the contiguous 48 United States ...
Asplundh Tree Expert, LLC | T&D World
Jan 22, 2024 · For 96 years, Asplundh has provided safe and cost-effective vegetation management and infrastructure design, construction, and support solutions to investor- and cooperatively owned utilities, departments of transportation, and …
What is Horizontal Drilling, and Why is it Important? - T&D World
May 26, 2022 · Horizontal directional drilling (HDD) is a relatively new telecommunications and utility installation technology. It allows for greater precision and flexibility in the placement. In addition, it eliminates the necessity of costly digging and the need for large crews, road closures, and other complications associated with traditional digging ...
ConEd Implementing New AMI Program - T&D World
Apr 28, 2016 · IBM has been selected by Consolidated Edison Company of NY, Inc. and Orange and Rockland Utilities, both regulated operating companies of Consolidated Edison, Inc., to provide services to implement an Advanced Metering Infrastructure (AMI) program with the installation of more than 3.9 million electric meters and 1.3 million gas meters.. Smart meters provide customers more insight and greater ...
Potomac Edison Completes Service Reliability Projects
Feb 15, 2023 · Potomac Edison, a subsidiary of FirstEnergy Corp., invested nearly $10 million in 2022 to complete service reliability projects that will help enhance electric service and minimize the impact of power outages for thousands of customers in Maryland. The company also received approval from the Maryland Public Service Commission to complete ...