Data centers are connecting to the transmission system faster than the reliability rules were built to handle and behaving ...

This article appeared in Evaluation Engineering and has been published here with permission. The gamut of electronic and electrical products from low-power mobile handsets and IoT devices to electric ...

The operating profiles of traditional generators has changed to manage the variability of renewable resources. Several critical processes were not engineered to manage these highly variable operating ...

Designers parallel their power supplies to increase system power output or to provide fault tolerance. In this column, Contributing Editor Tom Curatolo discusses various techniques for load sharing ...

Everywhere we turn, we use electronic loads — a laptop, dishwashers, a motor powered by a variable-frequency drive (VFD), or simply turning on an LED light using a light dimmer. Electronic loads, also ...

James A. Haley Veterans’ Hospital in Tampa, Fla., recently renovated its power plant. Completed at a cost of $47 million, it includes SCADA and a backup system capable of covering all electrical loads ...

Load banks are commonly utilized in product design and in production testing of power supplies and other power conversion devices, including motor drives and inverters. Load banks come in two forms: ...

Microprocessors and application-specific integrated circuits (ASICs) require low-voltage, high-current power supplies. These supplies usually have very strict requirements on output-voltage deviations ...