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Every project starts with a problem the catalog can’t solve. See how utilities and commercial & industrial operators worked with our engineers to define the challenge, build the solution, and measure what changed on the grid.
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G&W Electric’s Custom “Monk Parakeet” Viper-ST Crossarm Design
CHALLENGE:As one of the few temperate-zone parrots, the monk parakeet is more able than most to survive cold climates partly because they build communal nests around heat-producing electrical equipment located on utility poles. Colonies…
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G&W Electric’s LaZer® Power Grid Automation Solution Supplies Critical Power to Rural Travel Center
CHALLENGE:Cuivre River Electric Co-op in Troy, MO faced challenges when supplying critical power to a travel center/truck stop. This site operates 24 hours a day, seven days a week providing gas, showers, and other…
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Utilities
How an Investor Owned Utility in Illinois Incorporated A Scalable Approach for Distribution Automation
CHALLENGE:Across the country, power outages are becoming the norm. Consequently, customers are growing increasingly frustrated, and more costs are being incurred by utilities, leaving them with no choice but to pass that cost along…
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Industrial Manufacturing Feeder Restoration
CHALLENGE:A major Midwest manufacturer of raw material used in making LCD chips needed to expand their manufacturing operation to accommodate a substantial increase in business. They already had two plants that were filled to…
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Airport Feeder Restoration
CHALLENGE:Power for a large southern California airport is served by feeders from two different utility substations. Normally half of the load is carried by each feeder. When power from one feeder is lost, crews…
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Military Base Closed Loop Restoration
CHALLENGE:The government of South Korea required more land for commercial and industrial growth. The preferred location selected for expansion however was occupied by a major U.S. military base. An agreement was reached between the…
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Utilities
Underground Cable Transition Project
CHALLENGE:Continuous expansion of a major downtown city necessitated an upgrade of the electrical service by the utility company. The utility was faced with replacing the old substation equipment with new switchgear and associated apparatus.…
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Utilities
Three Phase Protection for Confined Space Applications
CHALLENGE:The utility serves approximately 95,000 residential and 13,000 commercial/industrial customers. Thedistribution system is 70% overhead and 30% underground. Nominal system voltage is 12.47kV transformed from a 34.5kV sub-transmission system. A new substation was required…
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Utilities
Fault Protection for Three Phase Motors
CHALLENGE:The oil extraction process requires large, three phase motors to operate the pumping wells. To protect these motors and other equipment, the customer used three phase reclosers programmed for four shots to lockout. The…
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Utilities
Alternative Solution to Air Insulated Substations
CHALLENGE:The utility serves approximately 95,000 residential and 13,000 commercial/industrial customers. The distribution system is 70% overhead and 30% underground. Nominal system voltage is 12.47kV transformed from a 34.5kV sub-transmission system. A new substation was…
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Utilities
Low Profile Recloser Solves Cluttered Pole Clearance Issue
CHALLENGE:The utility faced an extensive replacement project for many of their old, oil-filled reclosers. Many installation sites where replacement was necessary incorporated very congested utility poles where maintaining clearances was an issue. The utility…
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Utilities
Recloser Replaces Substation Breaker
CHALLENGE:The utility provides service to approximately 10,000customers in a primarily rural service territory of approximately 2,000 square miles. The utility needed to replace their aging circuit breakers, but wanted to leave the rack mounted…
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These case studies are the record of that work: what was constraining the network, what was engineered in response, and what the utility measured afterward.
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