With ever-increasing power demands, electric utilities find themselves in a race to maximize the reliability of their electrical assets while minimizing downtime. As a critical junction point in power distribution, medium-voltage switchgear represents one of the most vulnerable links in the power grid. These valuable assets are subject to overheating due to excessive loads, normal wear and tear...

Energy forecasting plays a dominant role in the sustainable development economic optimization, resource planning and secure operation of electric power systems. The variation in energy demand is a major source of uncertainty in planning for future capacity enhancement, resource needs and operation of existing generation resources. Electric utilities need monthly peak and yearly demand forecasti...

Electric utilities consume nearly 800 million tons of coal annually. or about 8 5 8 of the coal used in the US. About 5 5 9 of all electricity generated in the U.S. is produced from coal. Although many electric utilities now have excess generating capacity. this situation is expected to change during the 1990s. According to the Energy Information Agency. the net effect of retiring aging power p...

Ceramic/Porcelain insulators are widely used in power transmission lines to provide mechanical support for High voltage conductors in addition to withstand electrical stresses. As a result of lightning, switching or temporary over voltages that could initiate flashover under worst weather conditions, and to operate within interference limits. Given that the useful life in service of the individ...

Information and communication technologies (ICTs) have enabled the evolution of traditional electric power distribution networks towards a new paradigm referred to as the smart grid. However, the different elements that compose the ICT plane of a smart grid are usually conceived as isolated systems that typically result in rigid hardware architectures, which are hard to interoperate, manage and...

Ceramic/Porcelain insulators are widely used in power transmission lines to provide mechanical support for High voltage conductors in addition to withstand electrical stresses. As a result of lightning, switching or temporary over voltages that could initiate flashover under worst weather conditions, and to operate within interference limits. Given that the useful life in service of the individ...

Ceramic/Porcelain insulators are widely used in power transmission lines to provide mechanical support for High voltage conductors in addition to withstand electrical stresses. As a result of lightning, switching or temporary over voltages that could initiate flashover under worst weather conditions, and to operate within interference limits. Given that the useful life in service of the individ...

Cyberattacks in the energy sector are commonplace. Load-altering cyberattacks launched via manipulations of high-wattage appliances and assets particularly alarming, as they not continuously monitored by electric power utilities. Public Electric Vehicle Charging Stations (EVCSs) among such assets. Even EVCSs utilities protected state-of-the-art defense mechanisms vulnerable to cyberattacks. Suc...

In the past decade, plug-in (hybrid) electric vehicles (PHEVs) have been widely proposed as a viable alternative to internal combustion vehicles to reduce fossil fuel emissions and dependence on petroleum. Off-peak vehicle charging is frequently proposed to reduce the stress on the electric power grid by shaping the load curve. Time of use (TOU) rates have been recommended to incentivize PHEV o...