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Dominion Virginia Power kicks off solar energy purchase program

Participating customers purchase all of the electricity for their homes or businesses from the company on their current rate schedule

Solar photovoltaic production costs to fall to 36 cents per watt by 2017

The majority of these cost declines to derive from technology innovations such as diamond wire sawing for solar photovoltaic wafers, advanced metal...

Nevada solar energy project canceled

The company was unable to sign necessary power purchase agreements to sell the energy to utilities in Nevada or neighboring states

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Understanding the Limitations of a Traditional Power Factor Measurement and its Analysis

A line-frequency power factor measurement is the electric power industry’s most widely embraced electrical field diagnostic test with which to asse...

A Revolution in Current Transformer Testing

Different test devices and methods are used in the market to verify the performance of current transformers during development, production, instal...

Orange and Rockland Utilities: “Smart Grid Testing of Reclosers and Sectionalizers in a Distribution Automation & Restoration (DAR) System” (OMICRON Magazine reprint)

Testing of reclosers and sectionalizers in distribution networks has become demanding for both the testing personnel and the test equipment used. S...

Profile for the Use of Precision Time Protocol in Power Systems

 Electric utilities globally have initiatives to modernize their grids.  Each utility will create their own path to the “smart grid” bas...

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Achieving IT/OT Convergence using Advanced Communication Networks

In this webinar, representatives of Avista, an investor-owned utility headquartered in Spokane, Washington, will describe their approach to achieving IT/OT convergence in grid modernization project...

From Project to Deployment: Realizing Benefits with ADMS TechnologyADMS Technology

Join us for a series of discussions examining two deployed DMS projects, with embedded SCADA technology, and one project adding OMS for a complete ADMS solution.

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