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.

Expertise from Forbes Councils members, operated under license. Opinions expressed are those of the author. In an era marked by rapid technological advancements and growing energy demands—all ...

A distributed system is comprised of multiple computing devices interconnected with one another via a loosely-connected network. Almost all computing systems and applications today are distributed in ...

Major California utility PG&E has launched a distributed energy management system (DERMS) in partnership with Schneider Electric. The cloud-based DERMS operates on Microsoft Azure. The software is ...

In 1969, the U.S. Department of Defense created ARPANET, the precursor to today’s internet. Around the same time, the SWIFT protocol used for money transfers was also established. These are both early ...

The traditional electricity grid is being transformed, as more businesses look to control their costs by producing their own power. A need for reliable backup power, the push for more resiliency in ...