As electrical professionals, it’s important to have a basic understanding of several design criteria that are important to the design, operation, and maintenance of electrical distribution systems.

The existing overhead electrical distribution system in the eastern United States was primarily built out in the mid-20th century. It was designed and built to a standard that does not necessarily ...

The electronic content of a modern car has become one of the key brand differentiators in the market place. Alongside the obvious problems in ensuring that the latest technologies are available to be ...

The Biden Administration’s Executive Order 14057 establishes an ambitious plan to make all federal facilities net zero by 2045. New York City Local Law 97 establishes strict emission limits for ...

New EcoCare Advanced+ for Electrical Distribution introduces true condition-based maintenance capabilities, including 24/7 remote monitoring, AI-driven insights, and proactive service EcoCare ...

Advantages of Power over Ethernet in the context of industrial Ethernet. PoE standards continue to evolve to keep pace with increasing power demands. Driver for standards updating is the potential ...

Part 1 of this series dealt with overall wiring system design as providing the critical foundation for the growth in automotive electronics systems and functionality. In that installment we looked at ...

The quest to make data centers more efficient has led to some innovative power and cooling technology. One proposal has been to convert data center power architectures to DC. It turns out there are ...

It is important for machine design engineers to understand how transformers work so they can design machinery that operates optimally within the proper voltage ranges, as well as select the right ...

In common with utilities around the world, parts of Eskom’s medium-voltage distribution network in South Africa suffer from pole-top fires, adversely impacting reliability. A.K. Persadh studied this ...