Power quality compliance and grid reliability: harmonics, THD, power factor, voltage regulation, reactive power, IEEE 519, NERC CIP standards, and measurement instruments.
3 sources Oregon's POWER Act from June 10, 2026 requires loads above 20 MW to fund distribution expansion, with a 1 cent/Read More
3 sources Conventional iron-core transformers have no cyber attack surface; SSTs introduce a software + network control plane. Attack Read More
5 sources The North American Electric Reliability Corporation (NERC) issued a rare Level 3 Essential Actions alert on May 4, 2026, Read More
4 sources Three dominant simulation tools: PSCAD/EMTDC (EMT), RTDS (real-time hardware-in-loop), MATLAB Simulink (control algorithms). PSCAD model Read More
4 sources Virginia Tech CPES annual research expenditures $6-7M across power-electronics scope. 400 kW SST extremely fast EV Read More
4 sources The North American Electric Reliability Corporation (NERC) inverter-based resource registration deadline lands on May 15, 2026, with penalty Read More
4 sources ETH Zurich Power Electronic Systems Lab led 2001-2024 by Prof. Johann Kolar (Emeritus 08/2024). Two 15 kW demonstrators: Read More
4 sources EPRI managing program with 6 US utilities: Xcel, ConEdison, AEP, Southern Company, SCE, NYPA. Solid State Power Read More
4 sources Qinghai Province 110 kV SST commissioned 2019 by China Electric Power Research Institute for wind integration. Wujiang MVDC/Read More
4 sources Vacuumschmelze (Hanau Germany) ships VITROPERM; Hitachi Metals/Proterial (Tokyo) ships FINEMET; both since 1992. Nanocrystalline core loss: <10 Read More