Partner Spotlight — Utility Relay Company: 30 Years of Exceptional Products and Services

NETA World StaffCorporate Alliance Corner, Summer 2025 Corporate Alliance Corner

NETA Corporate Alliance Partners (CAPs) are industry-leading companies that have joined forces with NETA to work together toward a common aim: improving quality, safety, and electrical system reliability. In this ongoing NETA World series, we focus on the thought leadership behind these successful companies. This issue’s CAP Spotlight features an interview with Brian Bianchi, Director of Sales and Marketing at …

Advancements in Industry: How to Be a NERC Compliant Service Company

Volney Naranjo and Mark Pustejovsky, MeggerCorporate Alliance Corner, Summer 2025 Corporate Alliance Corner

Most utilities in the United States are required to comply with North American Electric Reliability Corporation (NERC) regulations. Some of these regulations require utilities to develop performance-based, condition-based, or time-based maintenance programs, and the execution of these programs is what opens a window of opportunity for testing companies to offer services oriented to help utilities achieve their maintenance testing needs.  …

CAP Spotlight: AVO Training Institute: Commitment to Quality

NETA World StaffCorporate Alliance Corner, Spring 2025 Corporate Alliance Corner

NETA Corporate Alliance Partners (CAPs) are industry-leading companies that have joined forces with NETA to work together toward a common aim: improving quality, safety, and electrical system reliability. In this ongoing NETA World series, we focus on the thought leadership behind these successful companies. This issue’s CAP Spotlight features an interview with Greg Richmond, Director of Training Operations at AVO …

Advancements in Industry: MV/HV Circuit Breaker Testing and Diagnostics: A Review

Charles Sweetser, OMICRON electronics Corp USACorporate Alliance Corner, Winter 2024 Corporate Alliance Corner

Circuit breaker types and technologies have a rich history. Whether we are referring to arc-extinction methods such as oil, air-blast, air magnetic, SF6, newer non-SF6 technologies, and vacuum, or to energy storage methods such as mechanical springs, pneumatics, and hydraulics, the use of and preference for these technologies has changed vastly over time. It is essential to understand diagnostic testing …

CAP Spotlight: intellirent: Connecting Logistics and the Job

NETA World StaffCorporate Alliance Corner, Winter 2024 Corporate Alliance Corner

NETA’s industry-leading Corporate Alliance Partners (CAPs) have joined forces with NETA to work together toward a common aim: improving quality, safety, and electrical system reliability. In our ongoing NETA World series focused on the thought leadership behind these successful companies, this issue features Drew Welton, Vice President of Sales for intellirent, a division of ElectroRent. Welton provides strategic leadership to …

Advancements in Industry: Miniaturizing Testing without Sacrificing Quality

Ravi Gupta and Swapnil Marathe, MeggerCorporate Alliance Corner, Fall 2024 Corporate Alliance Corner

A power system is a complex network of key high-voltage components working in synchrony to provide electricity. Power transformers, which help step up and step down voltage so power can be transmitted over long distances, are designed to be in continuous operation. Hence, the life and reliability of transformers is of paramount importance.  Multiple factors affect the life and performance …

CAP Spotlight: Doble: Mission-Driven to Provide Reliable Energy in a Sustainable World

NETA World StaffCorporate Alliance Corner, Fall 2024 Corporate Alliance Corner

NETA Corporate Alliance Partners (CAPs) are a group of industry-leading companies that have joined forces with NETA to work together toward a common aim: improving quality, safety, and electrical system reliability. In this ongoing NETA World series, we focus on the thought leadership behind these successful companies. This issue’s CAP Spotlight features an interview with David Koehler, Global Business Development …

CAP Spotlight: Raytech: A Global Leader for Nearly 30 Years

NETA World StaffCorporate Alliance Corner, Summer 2024 Corporate Alliance Corner

NETA Corporate Alliance Partners (CAPs) are a group of industry-leading companies that have joined forces with NETA to work together toward a common aim: improving quality, safety, and electrical system reliability. In this NETA World series highlighting NETA’s Corporate Alliance Partners, we recognize Raytech U.S.A. and its contribution to advancing the industry. Raytech develops and produces high-quality measuring and testing equipment for …

Advancements in Industry: Shorted-Winding Technique for Single-Phase Exciting Current and Loss Testing

Mike Anderson, Doble Engineering CompanyCorporate Alliance Corner, Summer 2024 Corporate Alliance Corner

The conventional exciting current and loss test is an open-circuit measurement of current and loss, typically performed from the high-voltage side of the transformer, using low voltage (up to 10 kV), single-phase, power frequency (50/60 Hz) excitation. For this test, the well-known approach to data analysis, first introduced in 1968, relies on comparison and evaluation of the per-phase readings against …

Advancements in Industry: Testing Substation Protective Relays without Tripping Circuit Breakers

Christopher Ness, MeggerCorporate Alliance Corner, Spring 2024 Corporate Alliance Corner

Imagine this scenario: You visit a local generating station that needs relay testing. They direct you to a switchyard relay house with microprocessor relays and test switches. The customer wants the relays tested, but the breakers are part of a bigger ring bus system that is powering loads to the city. The breakers cannot be tripped. What special considerations can …