Out-of-step protection is a critical component of modern power system protection schemes—its importance has grown ...

Testing verifies that protection schemes meet their intended purpose, ensuring safety and system integrity. Function testing involves manual or electrical manipulation of components to confirm signal ...

GE Multilin has unveiled the RTT Desktop Test Set, a compact, portable tool that allows engineers, technicians, consultants, and integrators to test and validate the protection, control logic and ...

Traditionally, testing protection systems in power distribution networks has been a time-consuming process involving many separate steps. But an alternative approach is now available which allows all ...

MPower from Manta Test Systems is a comprehensive protection test management, execution, reporting and analysis software package. It automates tests for all types of protection and control relays. It ...

Many of the electrical power networks have seen significant changes over the last few years. Due to the change in energy policy, today’s power is fed into these grids at many different points while ...

Relay testing is one of those challenging areas where there never seems to be a shortage of questions. The technology adopted in both the relays themselves and in the equipment used to test them is ...

DALLAS--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Smaller, lighter and with a higher output power than any other comparable three-phase instrument, Megger’s new SMRT 36 smart protective relay test set is ideally suited not ...

A May 2014 fire knocked out the Martin Drake Power Plant of Colorado Springs Utilities (CSU). The fire damaged all three coal-fired units, quickly disabling the entire 254 MW facility. The plant ...