Back in the fall I finally started programming the ClickPLC to manage the thermal ETS that heats the studio.

There …

All of last year I had to use alligator clips to "switch on" the heating elements in the ETS. Lift …

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

My experience with EthernetIP and CIP was limited to the interaction between VTSCADA and Allen-Bradley PLCs. This experience was amazingly …

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 …

Have you ever arrived at a site and there is no password for the device? You have to log on …

Someday I hope that it will be standard for utilities to provide a API that customers can use to calculate …

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