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System Engineering Approaches to Electric Grid Cybersecurity Challenges
Like many other systems of systems, the electric grid is facing challenges as devices originally intended to be either standalone or locally networked are now being connected to the Internet. In addition, the electric grid is facing unique challenges as the need to reduce carbon output is resulting in rapidly increasing numbers of non-centralized distributed energ...
California Utilities Define New Smart Inverter Capabilities
Originally published in the IEEE Smart Grid June 2019 Newsletter
Kay Stefferud, Director of Implementation Services
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California’s phased implementation of smart inverter functionality addresses power quality issues including issues caused by independent and intermittent renewable energy sources. Recommendations from California’s Smar...
Getting Offshore Wind Power on the Grid
Offshore wind power plants need to overcome a number of challenges.
Published on T&D World.com | May 29, 2019
David Mueller, Director of Energy Systems Studies
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Chandra Pallem, Principal Consultant
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Wind power in North America has been an exclusively land-based resource until Decem...
Systems Engineering Approaches to Address Cybersecurity Challenges of the Electric Grid
Published via Electric Energy T&D Magazine - 2019 Quarterly Issue 2
By: Kay Stefferud, Director of Implementation Services
kay@enernex.com
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Like many systems of systems, the electric grid is facing challenges as devices and applications originally intended to be either standalone or locally networked are now b...
On the Ground Floor of Ohio’s PowerForward Grid Modernization Initiative
A conversation with Ohio utility regulators and EnerNex technical experts on working groups that will guide the state’s regulatory roadmap for distributed energy resources.
By: Jeff St. John, Editor, GTM
Published via Greentech Media
March 29, 2019
Back in 2017, the Public Utilities Commission of Ohio launched the PowerForward initiative, an open-ended considerati...
Data Center Demand Response
Published March 11, 2019 | Distributed Energy Magazine
Sean Morash, Consultant, EnerNex
Carsten Baumann, Schneider Electric
Data centers represent roughly 2% of US electricity usage. Because of the digitalization of the modern economy, the thirst for computer power—ultimately served by data centers—continues to grow. At the same time, electrical usage by other end-uses has remained relatively flat...
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...
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...
Switching Surge Studies for Offshore Wind Plants
Published via North American Clean Energy
Chandra Pallem, Principal Consultant
chandra@enernex.com
865-770-4856
Presently, Europe is the world leader in offshore wind power with more than 2,300 MW of offshore wind plants installed. The first offshore wind farm was installed in Denmark in 1991. In North America, unlike land based wind generation, offshore wind farms are...
