Skill levels generally differ between plant operator shifts. Further, these differences often cause divides among the shifts that result in unequal divisions of responsibility. Comprehensive, ...

Having proactively tracked operator performance since 2004, DuPont began to notice a clear trend developing a few years ago. Their operator performance was declining—an issue that coincided with an ...

To increase operator safety and system reliability, Rauckman Utility Products, LLC offers active and passive animal barriers, lineman insulated hand tools and a drive-by voltage indicator. Its ...

Simulation technologies have numerous uses, many of which are focused on simulating plant processes to assess optimal operations and test possible plant configurations. Another use of simulation ...

YARMOUTH, Maine—A central monitoring station can be a cool place to work—if your idea of cool is not knowing what's going to happen from one minute to the next, or talking people through crises, real ...

The world’s largest wholesale electricity market, which includes Pennsylvania, gets its power from a half-dozen fuel sources, but its operator asks whether a growing dependence on natural gas fuel ...

Four of the largest grid operators in the USA are raising concerns with the USA Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) proposed guidelines for reducing carbon emissions from power plants. PJM ...

The Independent System Operator identified three reliability violations in its quarterly assessment of the grid’s ability to meet demand. ALBANY, New York — Multiple downstate regions face reliability ...

Seven major U.S. grid operators have raised a unified alarm about an impending capacity crunch, warning that the pace and scale of explosive demand—including from data centers, manufacturing, and ...