Power Update

Today, it's possible to utilize both digital monitoring, as well as offline data and inspections to identify emerging power transformer issues. Transformers outfitted with both sensors that monitor critical parameters, and the intelligence to bring the data together, can actually call for help well before plant operations are impacted, preventing the costs and challenges of unplanned outages.

The sky's the limit with system refinements for digital equipment that can lengthen equipment longevity, reduce O&M costs, increase system flexibility and resiliency, improve safety and much more. Digital substations should be the brains behind every modern, highly functioning, automated electric system.

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For over a century, the US power industry has delivered a reliable, low-cost supply of electricity that has driven economic development and unprecedented improvements to quality of life. The grid design, however, did not anticipate the changes now facing the industry. The overriding theme in the US electricity industry today is certainty that things are changing, but uncertainty about how the changes will be implemented. Read more in this perspective on stewardship, innovation and the role of the electric utility in the 21st century.