Aerial overview of the BESS installed in Nishi-Sendai substation. The Tohoku region of Japan has ideal wind conditions. By the end of 2015, Tohoku Electric Power Co. Inc. had connected 800 MW of wind ...

Distributed control systems (DCSs) and programmable logic controllers (PLCs) have been commonplace in power plants for decades, but the technology has not been stagnant. Today’s systems are beginning ...

Steps engineers can take to help mitigate power outage impacts. Paths to PLC redundancy. Paths to PAC redundancy. How can a dual Ethernet ring help with resilience? Power outages are becoming more ...

Six times during the previous year the local utility supplying power to a large soap manufacturing plant in the Midwest suffered power outages, shutting down the plant’s production lines. Each time ...

With any low-power design, the designer has the choice between choosing low-power components or switching off the power to peripheral devices. When considering the choice of non-volatile flash ...

As we navigate through 2025, the global power system landscape is marked by significant trends that are reshaping the industry. These trends are driven by technological advancements, geopolitics, ...

What are Stackelberg games and how do they apply to power systems? What is an IEEE 9 bus? The Stackelberg game approach is defined as a strategic game in economics. It models a competition between a ...