Examining reliability impact of renewables
As directed by the Energy Policy Act of 2005, the North American Electric Reliability Corporation (NERC) must conduct periodic assessments of the reliability and adequacy of the bulk power system (BPS). To that end, NERC…
Cost of Unplanned Data Center Outages
Data center downtime proves to remain a costly line item for organizations, and the cost has increased significantly in the last three years, according to the results of the “2013 Cost of Data Center Outages,”…
Can solar tech help to mitigate voltage fluctuations?
A group of utility executives, worried about the massive influx of distributed solar power generation on their electric grids, were almost begging in 2013 for smart solar inverters which could mitigate voltage fluctuations that can…
Luleå University of Technology researcher visiting Professor in Universidad de Córdoba
A year ago, Sarah Rönnberg got her PhD in Electric Power Engineering. Shortly thereafter, she became a visiting professor at the University of Córdoba, Spain, where she along with Dr. Aurora Gil-de-Castro will be researching…
