Nashville, the “Music City,” has plenty to offer visitors. Part of the Nashville experience is catching a show at the Grand Ole Opry, popping into one of the city’s honky-tonks...

Performing an arc flash study can be complex enough, but the latest edition of IEEE 1584—IEEE Guide for Performing Arc-Flash Hazard Calculations has taken it to a whole new level...

As healthcare demands rise, several companies have teamed up to build a modular solution intended to offer fast additional surgical or patient treatment capacity. Hunt Electric Corp., Bloomington, Minn., is...

When the lights are off and no one is in the office, your business is still open. Even during regular business hours, most of your customers probably visited your website...

Comfort, efficiency and security are driving residential smart home trends that interest many home buyers. What exactly makes a home “smart” differs, but once security systems and temperature or lighting...

In my August column, I reviewed some basic rules and procedures for troubleshooting power quality problems. Like water that flows downhill, PQ disturbances must obey the laws of physics. When...

In my opinion, engineers traditionally have a difficult time communicating their design information to the contractor performing the system installation (fire alarm, or any system for that matter). Generally, upon...

Mike Starner, a certified utility safety professional, joined the National Electrical Contractors Association in July as director of outside line safety, a new position. “The outside line is a major...

The 1910.269 standard is commonly referred to as the “maintenance standard” in the electric utility work space, and subpart V in the corresponding construction 1926 standards. These two standards, covering...

Aging infrastructure, increasing demands for electricity and the transition to renewable energy are fueling contracts for substation work. Those factors are also driving the need to keep training lineworkers, who...