Australia is leading the way in the quest for a renewable electricity grid. Being at the forefront comes with its challenges — the most pressing of which is maintaining network stability.
“There was grid stability in the past, we still have it mainly now, and of course we’ll have it in the future”. That statement is
How the current crisis could hail a new era in renewable energy, and the dangers that come with it. Author: Dave Jones My analysis for
Why the solar-powered grid needs to smarten up to meet the challenges of the COVID-19 pandemic. Western Australia’s Distributed Energy Resources (DER) Roadmap puts the
Introducing VECTO System, the revolutionary Class-A multifunction edge computer that lets you see and manage the grid remotely. Power transformers require consistent testing and maintenance to assess their condition and to uncover the issues that threaten the network. Maintenance engineers are a critical link in building power grid resilience and stability. A range of tools and technologies exist to assist engineers in their quest, with most investigations requiring a combination of devices to test the different parameters.
At 8:15am on 9 December 2017 the Gauteng suburb of Boksburg was rocked by a double explosion that shattered windows half a kilometer away. Almost immediately a column of black smoke rose into the sky and a rolling blackout left 25,000 households without power.
The importance of reliable, high-quality electrical power continues to grow as society becomes ever more reliant on digital circuitry for everything from e-commerce to industrial process controllers to the onboard circuitry in toasters and televisions.
With this shift to a digital society, business activities have become increasingly sensitive to disturbances in the power supply. Such disturbances not only include power outages (the complete absence of voltage, whether for a fraction of a second or several hours), but also power quality phenomena (all other deviations from perfect power, including voltage sags, surges, transients, and harmonics).
