NETA’s 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. Here, our continuing CAP Spotlight series talks to President Ashley Ledbetter about the thought leadership and subject-matter expertise of Group CBS. NW: What are the biggest challenges facing your …
Electricity is a powerful force that can cause serious injury and death. When it comes to electrical job tasks, it only takes an instant to turn a momentary mistake into a life-altering event or even fatality. Therefore, qualified electrical workers must understand the hazards presented by exposed energized parts and know how to protect themselves using safe electrical work practices. …
NETA’s 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. Here, our continuing CAP Spotlight series highlights the individual successes of these companies with an interview with Chris King, Vice President of Sales and Business Development at ECP Solutions. NW: Please briefly …
The objective of protective relays and protective schemes is to protect electrical equipment such as transformers, lines, cables, bus bars, etc. during abnormal system conditions. Hence, protective relaying demands the utmost attention and diligence. However, when dealing with relay protection, protection engineers may inadvertently focus only on the relays. Engineers talk about selecting appropriate relays, applying correct settings, checking out …
A basic distinction can be made between system safety and product safety. Product safety has improved constantly over the past few years, if not decades. One reason for this is that various standards have been established or improved recently. Usually, norms or standards reflect the state-of-the-art in modern techniques. Using state-of-the-art measurement equipment that meets quality standards for safety minimizes …
NETA’s 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. Our continuing CAP Spotlight series highlights some of their individual successes as NETA World interviews MVA President Scott Reed. NW: What do people think when they hear of MVA? …
Traditional line protection incorporates elements in the phasor domain. Phasor-based line protection uses a full cycle of data and is subject to CT accuracy limitations, limiting operating speed and fault location accuracy. However, new advances in protective relay technology have facilitated the introduction of relays that operate in the time domain. By detecting and time-stamping the arrival of traveling waves …
NETA’s 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. Our continuing CAP Spotlight series highlights some of their individual successes as NETA World interviews A-Rent CEO Paul Seppanen. NWJ: Please briefly describe A-Rent Seppanen: A-Rent specializes in electrical …
The design life of a transformer is usually about 20 to 25 years. In the United States, estimates show the average age of a transformer is currently around 42 years, which means a number of even older units are still in service. As with all things, transformers age and degrade over time. Transformer failures can come from a variety of …
During the life cycle of a substation automation system (SAS), it takes considerable effort and time to test the communication, interlocking logic, and proper operation of all signals transmitted to supervisory control and data acquisition (SCADA) systems. In a substation that makes use of IEC 61850 communication, all the engineering and configuration data can be saved in standard-format files — the …