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Human Performance in Electrical Safety: Where the Rubber Hits the Road

Electrical workers, supervisors, and managers are instinctively aware that getting to the root cause of electrical incidents involving the safety of their people and/or the integrity of their equipment requires ...

VLF Tan Delta Cable Testing: Is It Right for Your Company?

To explain VLF tan delta, we must first explain the reason it was developed and how the concept and equipment used to perform this test came about. Tan delta is ...

Categorizing Faults in Power Transformers via Dissolved Gas Analysis

While the chemistry behind dissolved gas analysis (DGA) is complex and important for industry chemists to understand, the typical DGA review need not be as complex. Thermal or hot metal ...

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 James R. White

Shermco Industries

Tech Quiz
NFPA 70E and NETA

Medium-Voltage Power System Components

Key Points of NFPA 70E’s Safe Work Practices

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Scott Blizard
President's Desk

American Electrical Testing Company LLC

NETA President
Safety Corner

COVID-19 and the Birth of PowerTest TV

Medium-Voltage Circuit Breaker Condition Analysis and Hazard Awareness Update

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Ron Widup
Shermco Industries NFPA 70E and NETA

Key Points of NFPA 70E’s Safe Work Practices

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Don A. Genutis

Halco Testing Services, Inc.

In the Field

The Lights are Still On!

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Steven Turner

Arizona Public Service Company

Relay Column

Best Practices for Setting Transformer Differential Protection CT Compensation

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Paul Chamberlain
Asplundh Engineering Services, LLC Safety Corner

Medium-Voltage Circuit Breaker Condition Analysis and Hazard Awareness Update

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    Industry Topics


    Improved Safety Method for Measuring Dead Tank Circuit Breaker Operation Time

    Safety in high-voltage substations is the highest priority for all personnel involved, and regulations and laws require all objects to be grounded on both sides before any maintenance work is performed. Failure to ground the circuit breaker (CB) on both ...

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    Enhancing Cybersecurity in the Energy Grid: From Monitoring to Engineered Resilience

    The energy grid is becoming more connected, intelligent, and operationally dependent on digital systems every year. As utilities modernize infrastructure, ...

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    NFPA 70B Committee Report

    The NFPA 70B committee has continued to meet every two weeks via conference and video calls. We are working on revamping chapters to make it into a standard, and while progress is sometimes slow, we appear to be on track ...

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    Alliance Recognition Award Honors a Consummate Educator

    When the presentation for this year’s Alliance Recognition Award began, Dr. Nick Perjanik thought the award was going to anyone ...

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