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EPRI MEDIA RELEASE – DONALD CUTLER Palo Alto, Calif.. (May 21, 2020) – From a field of more than 130 applicants, the Electric Power Research Institute’s (EPRI) Incubatenergy® Labs Challenge selected ten startups to demonstrate innovative power delivery and use technologies under the leadership of EPRI, Ameren Corporation, Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA), and Southern California Edison …

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ENERGYMAGAZINE.COM.AU – KIM HO An incident in Victoria has shown the importance of Early Fault Detection (EFD) systems, with a broken conductor strand being identified before the powerline fell. The EFD system, installed by Powercor on a 13,000V powerline in a high danger area at Porcupine Ridge near Daylesford, detected the breaking powerline in time …

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ENERGIZED BY EDISON WRITER – DAVID SONG PHOTO CREDIT – MARIA HEDRICK Brendan Kirkpatrick distinctly remembers a windy autumn evening in October 2017 when he anxiously waited to hear back from his parents as the Nuns Fire — one of a series of fires that year — burned less than a mile from his childhood …

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EFD installed on VIC peninsula ENERGYMAGAZINE.COM.AU – IMOGEN HARTMAN United Energy crews have installed 22 Early Fault Detection (EFD) devices across parts of the high voltage network in Rosebud and Dromana to flag potential network faults early and thereby improve power reliability and safety. The advanced technology was installed to protect some of the most …

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