This article provides solutions to issues addressed in our prior article Renewable Energy Poses Challenges to Electric Power Quality....

In a recent meeting with electric utility professionals, a question arose about the advantages of electric powerways compared to...

Distributed renewable energy sources, such as solar photovoltaic (PV) panels or wind turbines, present an exciting opportunity for the...

As distributed renewable energy sources increase and electric vehicles (EVs) become more commonplace, electric utilities need to...

In our last post, we discussed the necessity of staged fault testing by reviewing three examples of protective relay misoperations....

After almost 10 years of study, the number of protective relay misoperations associated with high voltage facilities remains unacceptably...

Consumer load models are not accurately depicted by electric utilities, and therefore are not appropriately considered when engineers...

Before we continue our deep dive into the design and operation of the electric energy system, we want to address some basic concepts....

Fault Induced Delayed Voltage Recovery, or FIDVR, occurs when thousands of air conditioners simultaneously reaccelerate after a momentary...

For electric utilities, Build Back Better needs to include imagination, innovation, and a vision of consumers expectations in the years...

This is part eight of a series on climate change and the electric power industry. In our last post, we discussed the importance of...

This is part seven of a series on climate change and the electric power industry. Currently, electric utilities bill customers using an...

This is part six of a series on climate change and the electric power industry. Last week we delved into a cross-industry comparison to...

This is part five of a series on climate change and the electric power industry. The electric utility industry must invest in significant...

This is part four of a series on climate change and the electric power industry. As we explored in our last post, it is evident that the...

During the global transition to small scale, renewable energy, electric utilities will need to revise their rate structures so that...

In the first part of this series, I presented the capabilities and benefits of load sequencing panels (LSPs) for residential consumers....

As discussed in my previous post about the Texas energy crisis this past February, a major issue facing energy consumers today is that...

In recent years some energy providers, including those in Texas, have begun offering market-based billing options. Market-based billing...

From the earliest electric power systems until today, distribution lines have been designed and constructed solely to transfer power from...