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Long-Term Reliability Assessment (LTRA) identifies reliability trends, emerging issues and potential risks to the bulk power system over a 10-year horizon. This year’s report points to. . .

Reliability in the electric power industry formerly came from the ability to plan power systems with significant redundancy. Increasing competition and limited resources are forcing utilities to ...

Five Maine community solar sites managed by Ampion Renewable Energy, a leading community solar subscription management company, reached commercial ope. . .

With less than two weeks to go in 2024, Consumers Energy crews are completing the last of 1,350 major projects that support the company's Reliabil. . .

The utility industry has been on a roller coaster ride for much of the past few years. Caught in the midst of fitfully starting and stopping deregulation, aging infrastructure, higher than ever demand ...

Robotic technologies are an innovative way to assist utilities in their asset management programs. The Electric Power Research Institute (EPRI) is developing robots that will inspect transmission ...

Geomagnetic disturbances (GMDs), often called geomagnetic storms, and geomagnetically induced currents (GICs), are gaining recognition as a threat to the bulk power system. GICs are the currents that ...

Over the past few decades, changes in weather patterns due to climate change or global warming have led to more extreme, frequent, and costly weather events that have included intense rains, ice ...

Video monitoring is a key component of an electric utility’s comprehensive physical security plan. For utilities following NERC CIP 014 and the NERC Security Guideline for the Electricity Sector, a ...

If utility personnel responsible for cyber security compliance have had any exposure to the Critical Infrastructure Protection (CIP) program sponsored by the North American Electric Reliability ...

This article is the first in a series of articles that will help to bring light to the maintenance practices presently applied to power circuit breakers. A list of the most popular tests used; with ...