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An electrical engineering firm reducing the worlds diesel generation footprint.
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How to Create an Electrical Safety Program
Electricity is a powerful and dangerous tool used by people all over the world. It is very important for your workplace to have an electrical safety program to help lower the risk when working around energized
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Jargon a talking killer - Clarity in Communication
I was reminded of a presentation by Al Winfield at ESW 2015 in February after reading point 5 "Replace jargon with clarity." of the hit post 10 top writing tips and the psychology behind them.
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Data Requirements for Power System Studies
Now that we have an understanding about the importance of good data collection for power system studies, and how to prepare a plan for data gathering, now we need to understand exactly what is needed for
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Plan you Data Collection Effort
In the first post of the series we talked about why having good information and data is critical for an accurate power system study. If you haven't read that one yet, stop reading an check out Data Collection
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Data Collection For Power System Studies
What Is Needed When Gathering Data For Power System Studies Data Collection is about gathering the data necessary for building an accurate model of your power system. This model will be the basis for the
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Power System Studies - The Why and How
In the first part of the Power System Study series I told you what a power system study is, and in the second I described why a power system analysis is critical for every facility, plant, building, etc,
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Power System Studies - The Critical Four
In the first part of the Power System Study series I told you what a power system study is, and what power system analysis I consider critical for every facility, plant, building, etc, no matter how large
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Power System Studies - The What
Definition: A group of studies used to analyze a power systems response to events over different time periods. The time periods There are three over all time periods that a power system study will look
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What is CSA-Z462?
If you’re going to be doing any job involving electricity, it’s important to know how to keep yourself safe. If you’re looking for a standard and you live in Canada, then you have to look no farther than
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Electrical Safety at the office
Electrical safety in an office is very similar to electrical safety at home, except for there is larger equipment and more people around. A busy office The tips for electrical safety at home were: Watch
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3 tips to use electricity safely at home
The more connected we become, and the more DIY projects we take on, the more aware we need to be of the hazards of electricity. There are two hazards directly associated with electricity: shock and arc
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Incident Energy Studies
Incident Energy: The amount of energy impressed on a surface, a certain distance from the source, generated during an electrical arc event. One of the units used to measure incident energy is calories
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33kW Solar Project - Nova Scotia
In early 2019 I was hired to assist with the interconnection engineering and power system design for a 33kW ground mounted PV solar array by Natural Forces Construction. Our Scope We were tasked with
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The JMK Engineering Curation Trail
This is something that I started on that other chain, and I want to continue here. The goal is to encourage more renewable energy, and #smartgrid content on Hive. If you are interested in help out, you
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Installing VTScada
Compared to a lot of industrial software VTScada is very easy to install and get started with. A few years ago I went through the process for a client to figure out what was the best solution for their
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Webinar - Arc Flash in 2020
Access to this page is limited to people who have purchased the webinar here. "FORM FOR REGISTRATION" Posted from our blog at If you like this article and want to hear more sign up for our newsletter at
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Troubleshooting, SCADA and Energized Work
This is a great followup and use case for a home energy monitoring system, something I wrote about on the blog last week. My new ETS was broken, but how? The electric thermal storage (ETS) unit mentioned
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Get out of the way when operating switches
When I am developing an Arc Flash Analysis report there are a few recommendations that always survive. They are near the top of the hierarchy of controls, and are set it and forget it type of controls.
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Home Energy Management
One of the great things about volunteering with IEEE is that you get opportunities to share some of your expertise with your peers. In December a colleague and I submitted a proposal to fund an Energy
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Energized Work Permits
Let's talk about energized work permits. I've seen some extremely long and detailed forms outlining what needs to be in the energized work permit that were up to 6 pages. To make things worse, they duplicate
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