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.

Air distribution in a space and diffuser selection is simple, right? It is so simple that it is typically one of the first tasks that a young aspiring HVAC engineer or designer is assigned to do in ...

Starline's director of commercial and industrial sales, Adrian Sanchez, explains how outdated power systems can quietly ...

What came first — the chicken or the egg? This age-old question has been perplexing society for generations. The electrical equivalent of this timeless dilemma is “What came first — the distribution ...

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 ...

Despite significant capital investment by electric utilities in recent years, energy infrastructure across the U.S. received only a C-minus rating in the latest report card from the American Society of ...

How to measure harmonics in a power system. Methodologies for reducing power system harmonics. A look at "triplen" harmonics. The IEEE standard 3002.8-2018, “Recommended Practice for Conducting ...

Distribution system interruption data and IEEE performance indices can provide valuable insights into the tradeoffs involved with reliability improvement measures. Standard 1366 was issued in 1998 and ...

This report evaluates approaches for risk characterization and recent data, and it identifies a variety of strategies that could be considered to reduce the risks posed by water-quality deteriorating ...

Is high-voltage DC (HVDC) the future of power distribution in data centers? If so, power-supply designers will have to work through a lot of challenges to make it a reality. The evolution of power ...