As severe storms become more frequent and more people work from home, outages at the edge of the grid are having a big impact. These areas are typically protected by overhead distribution transformer fuses, which operate whenever a fault is present. Up to 70% of these faults are caused by nuisance issues which lead to avoidable power outages.
The VacuFuse II interrupter enables utilities to lower their maintenance costs and keep customer satisfaction high while building a modern, reliable grid.

For Darleen D. DeRosa, Regulatory Policy & Industry Relations Director with Landis+Gyr, it wasn’t the pandemic that called her to re-evaluate her career and the mark she wanted to leave on the world, it was becoming a mom to two children.

What’s changed in the year since the disastrous storm claimed more than 240 lives and cost Texans more than $50 billion in terms of electricity going through the real-time market.

The newest retail electricity provider in Texas, OhmConnect Energy (OCE), has entered the market with what it said is a unique business proposition: pay Texans to save energy.  

G&W Electric on February 8 announced the launch of the Viper-HV Recloser up to 72.5kV.

Free On-Demand Webinar: In this session, we will discuss a new approach to managing traditional utility assets and infrastructure.

The governor of Massachusetts announced that $13.1 million in grants have been awarded to 54 government and private entities under the Massachusetts Electric Vehicle Incentive Program (MassEVIP) to install 306 Direct Current Fast Charging (DCFC) electric vehicle charging ports at 150 locations

The utility still has work to do, but is cleared to recover wildfire-related costs from ratepayers.

Along with hundreds of physical security solutions, we here at Access Hardware Supply are excited to offer the incredible technology inside Medeco XT.

We, the people, can certainly protect the grid from service interruptions and rate hikes by adjusting our collective behavior under the “right” market conditions.

Cybersecurity guidance for distribution system operators to protect DER has been published by the US National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST).