The North American power grid is an incredible thing. Stretching from coast to coast, through mountains and forests and valleys …

There is a lot of activity around adding renewable projects to isolated system and/or behind the meter. Renewable generation …

This post is all about how I'm updating the current control of the ETS that we installed last November.

When …

There is a lot of talk about chemical based energy storage (batteries), but before batteries there was thermal storage.

Thermal …

I have been working with a couple regulated utilities over the last few years. Neither of these utilities have a …

The purpose of this post is to define the terms that I use elsewhere on this site, including documents, articles …

You already know I like VTScada as my HMI/SCADA application of choice, and being able to add functions and …

Compared to a lot of industrial software VTScada is very easy to install and get started with.

A few years …

I'm helping a client troubleshoot an HPU motor tripping. There isn't any monitoring of current and they are running out …

This is a great followup and use case for a home energy monitoring system, something I wrote about on the …

When I am developing an Arc Flash Analysis report there are a few recommendations that always survive. They are near …

One of the great things about volunteering with IEEE is that you get opportunities to share some of your expertise …