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 ...

In the early 2000s, I vividly recall my father, a self-taught programmer and electrical engineer, developing a Visual Basic application to calculate voltage regulation for his local utility company.

The age-old saying stepping stones can become stumbling blocks certainly applies to large systems power distribution. Implemented as distributed power The age-old saying “stepping stones can become ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

The Uptime Institute’s Tier standard is a globally recognized framework that classifies data centers into four tiers based on their infrastructure’s reliability, redundancy, and fault tolerance. These ...