IEEE Smart Grid Interviews Erich Gunther
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Smart Grid News features Q&A with Gunther
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Progress on linchpins of microgrid uptake: Focus is on controller technology, smart inverter policy and common information models
Guest Editorial | Progress on linchpins of microgrid uptake: Focus is on controller technology, smart inverter policy and common information models
By Kay Stefferud
Enabled by increasing amounts of Distributed Energy Resources (DER), utilities and large facilities are turning to microgrids to support the resiliency of electric service in the aftermath of increasingly frequent, extreme weather events, as well as for grid support.
Yet microgrids’ abil...
Grid 3.0
Under funding from EPRI, EnerNex Chairman and CTO Erich Gunther has been supporting an informal group of thought leaders from more than a dozen organizations including EPRI, NIST, NEMA, EEI, DOE, GWAC, UCAIug, IEEE PES Smart Grid, FERC, SGIP and more.
This group, informally referred to as the Grid 3.0 Leadership Group, is responsible for planning outreach events such as roundtables, workshops, and webinars held to facilitate discovering desired future ...
Optimizing distribution operations | Intelligent Utility
Optimizing distribution operations
By Doug Houseman
Forty years ago Distribution engineers laughed at Transmission operators when they said they had to do state estimation and power flow balancing. Distribution did not have those kinds of problems and any imbalance could be handled on the feeder by moving a single phase transformer or two to rebalance the circuit. Distribution was simple, and to a large extent changes were seasonal in nature.
Today...
POTUS Needs Your Help | T&D World
POTUS Needs Your Help
The 45th president of the United States will inherit all manner of challenges including many crucial issues surrounding electric energy. See the advice our Xperts would give POTUS if they were appointed senior advisor to the president for electric energy.
John H. Baker Jr., Michael Heyeck, Doug Houseman, Marlon Vogt 1, Bradley Schmidt, Mani Vadari, Seth Hulkhower | May 23, 2016
Already the 2016 U.S. presidential campaign has been...
Our Energy Future | T&D World
Our Energy Future
Do you want a say in the shape our industry will take? Then get involved!
By Doug Houseman
Time is not our friend. Coal generation will go away, with much of it gone by 2020 and little surviving beyond 2030. Once most of the coal is gone, we will see natural gas generation come under pressure to close down. Nuclear generation is not economically feasible today, and regulatory changes would be needed to make it viable. Expect to see ...
How We Sell Microgrids Short. Way Short. | Microgridknowledge.com
How We Sell Microgrids Short. Way Short.
By Doug Houseman
EnerNex’s Doug Houseman explains how we sell microgrids short. The ideal microgrid is not just a technology to generate power, but a way to manage an entire habitat.
There is a lot of discussion about microgrids and their future and impact on the electrical industry. But most of those focus on delivering electricity and reliability. Unfortunately, that sells the possibilities of the microgr...
Power System Transient Studies Using EMTP-RV | Electric Energy Online
Power System Transient Studies Using EMTP-RV
By: Tom Grebe, Principal Consultant
tgrebe@enernex.com
865-770-4880
Published via Electric Energy Online | June 2016
Power system transients that are caused by utility switching operations or lightning strikes to electric facilities have significant potential to damage equipment or disrupt operation. High frequency transients have been recognized for quite some time as a thr...
EnerNex Announces Participation at 2016 IEEE Power and Energy Society’s Transmission and Distribution Conference
Booth exhibit set to showcase tools and techniques necessary to address transmission and distribution design for a modern grid
April 25, 2016 11:20 AM Eastern Daylight Time
KNOXVILLE, Tenn.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--EnerNex, an electric power research, engineering and consulting firm, announced today its involvement in the IEEE Power and Energy Society’s Transmission and Distribution Conference and Exposition in Dallas, May 2-5, 2016.
EnerNex Chairman and CTO E...