25-year industry veteran recognized for overall advancement of the power industry
October 04, 2016 09:00 AM Eastern Daylight Time
KNOXVILLE, Tenn.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--EnerNex, an electric power research, engineering and consulting firm, announces Co-founder and Executive Vice President Robert Zavadil has received the 2016 Wayne E. Knabach Award for Excellence in Power.
Zavadil has worked on electric power system issues for wind generation for over 25 ye...
By Jeremy Laundergan, Vice President of Consulting Service
Since our founding in 2003, EnerNex has been involved with grid modernization efforts related to Demand Side Management (DSM) including energy efficiency (EE) and demand response (DR). Our work with Southern California Edison (SCE) on the Use Cases for utilizing Advanced Metering Infrastructure (AMI) to facilitate DR included the enablement of dynamic pricing (time-of-use (TOU), critical peak pr...
Collaboration between the Company’s Smart Grid Engineering and Power Systems Consulting Areas a Key Priority
August 31, 2016 09:55 AM Eastern Daylight Time
KNOXVILLE, Tenn.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--EnerNex, an electric power research, engineering and consulting firm, announces changes to its organizational structure. The changes, effective August 1, 2016, will enhance the collaboration between the company's two traditional business areas, Smart Grid Engineering...
Using Microbreweries to Explain Grid Modernization
By Sean Morash
Energy consultants tend to have a hard time relating to normal people. Maybe that’s because we’re engineers at heart, or maybe it’s because we get too involved in our hyper-specific focus area and lose track of the general knowledge of everyday people. Somewhere along the way, things that are taken for granted by someone who studies grid modernization are nuanced enough to give a layman ...
A Smart Grid Chasm-Crossing Dilemma
How well does the “chasm-crossing” theory fit the power delivery industry?
Peter Manos | Aug 04, 2016
In the strategic marketing world, we often talk about motivating innovators and early adopters sufficiently to catalyze a “crossing of the chasm.”
The concept can be viewed in terms of a product adoption model that breaks up markets into customer segments, as shown below:
It is often assumed that this model, p...
At the 2016 IEEE PES Switchgear Committee Meeting in Hilton Head, South Carolina, the Transient Limiting Inductor Applications in Shunt Capacitor Banks technical report was awarded the IEEE PES Technical Committee Prize Paper Award presented to Roy Alexander, Lucas Collette, Tom Grebe, Halim Malaj, and Joe Meisner by the Switchgear Committee of the IEEE Power and Energy Society.
Transient Limiting Inductor Applications ...
Rated Power Output Can Affect Grid for Good or Bad
By Jens Schoene, Doug Houseman and Sean Morash, EnerNex
Distributed generation (DG), such as distribution-connected photovoltaic (PV) generation, presents a number of challenges to distribution system planning and operations. Dispersed generation sources connected to the distribution system disrupt the traditional paradigm that the substation is the sole source of power and short-circuit capacity. In add...
Geomagnetic Disturbances and the Grid
Harmonics Studies Needed to Assess Vulnerabilities
By David Mueller, Director of Energy Systems Studies
Fortnightly Magazine - July 2016
On March 13, 1989, a geomagnetic disturbance, GMD, caused by solar activity affected bulk power systems in North America.
The most serious impact led to the shutdown of static compensators on a network essential to control of Hydro Québec's grid. This caused v...
Smart Grid Industry Pioneer Known for Advancing Grid Modernization Efforts
June 20, 2016 03:04 PM Eastern Daylight Time
KNOXVILLE, Tenn.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--With deep sadness, EnerNex announces Erich Gunther, co-founder, chairman and chief technology officer of EnerNex, passed away unexpectedly on June 18 at the age of 57.
Gunther was most well known for his leadership in fostering collaboration among a wide range of stakeholders to accelerate technolog...
