by Mike Beehler | Sep 8, 2021 | Links
Utility Dive Article 1MM customers out of service for weeks! All 8 transmission lines serving New Orleans are down and the generation is tripped off. In the short run, we need to support the line crews that will risk life and limb rebuilding a tangled mess of wood,...
by Mike Beehler | Aug 9, 2021 | Links
At PowerGrid International there’s an article about undergrounding. It begins, Two North American utilities are burying more than 6,000 miles of power lines combined. Project managers from each one describe why they did it, how they did it, and what lessons they...
by Mike Beehler | Jul 19, 2021 | Links
Hydrogen has great future potential: 1) use renewables or nuclear power to crack water or methane (natural gas) as a source of clean, utility scale energy generation2) use hydrogen for storage of various sizes3) use in fuel cells for vehicles or distributed...
by Mike Beehler | Jun 29, 2021 | Links
Photo by Pixabay on Pexels.com Artificial Intelligence (AI) on the T&D system???? Yes….for analysis of UAV line inspection data, predicting substation equipment condition, using AMI voltage data for distribution transformers and now, on NYPA’s Long Island Sound...
by Mike Beehler | Jun 19, 2021 | Links
National Grid joins NextEra and LADWP in announcing their move into hydrogen and, ultimately, hydrogen fuel cells. Fuel cells and hydrogen have many advantages and opportunities described well for lay people in Chapter 5 of Richard Gasaway’s “An Inconvenient Purpose”...
by Mike Beehler | Feb 18, 2021 | Links
Stay safe and warm. Texas isn’t the only place it’s gonna be cold. Bitter cold (-15) predicted for KC as well on 02/15. Always a reminder of the value of the grid! it’s 99.97% reliableit connects you to low cost generation (important when ERCOT is predicting...
