IEEE PES PLAIN TALK courses for the power industry professional will help you to understand technical aspects of the electric power industry, even if you do not have an engineering background. You ...

Understanding power factor (PF) is important because it gives us a clear understanding of the efficiency of an electrical system. Put simply, it’s the ratio of true power and apparent power, which ...

A device used in datacenters to distribute AC power to multiple servers and other equipment. Power distribution units (PDUs) range from simple 120v power strips to units that break out 120 volts from ...

In the early 2000s, I vividly recall my father, a self-taught programmer and electrical engineer, developing a Visual Basic application to calculate voltage regulation for his local utility company.

SAIDI (System Average Interruption Duration Index) and SAIFI (System Average Interruption Frequency Index) are widely used reliability indices that measure the performance of power distribution ...

Think about the last time your command needed mobile power in the field. This probably required the servicing, maintenance, dispatching, and recovery of an Advanced Medium Mobile Power Source (AMMPS) ...

DARPA’s recent achievement in advancing power beaming technology sets a new benchmark for wireless energy transmission. Through its Persistent Optical Wireless Energy Relay (POWER) program, DARPA has ...

AN NASSIRIYAH, Iraq -- Restoring and improving the electrical supply in Iraq has been one of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers' biggest and most costly challenges. Although access to power varies ...