by Aleezeh Shahid | 2021, April, 13 | Aleezeh Shahid, Switchgear
According to a recent study published by the American Association for Advancement of Science, data centers consumed close to 205 TWh of electricity in 2018 or 1% of total global electricity consumption. On the other hand, the amount of computing carried out in data...
by Saifa Khalid | 2021, March, 24 | HVDC, Saifa Khalid
The imposition of global lockdowns to curtail the spread of pandemic in 2020 significantly reduced the electricity demand. According to International Energy Agency (IEA), electricity demand dropped 2% making it the largest drop in demand in the last 50 years and far...
by Aleezeh Shahid | 2021, March, 19 | Aleezeh Shahid, Transformers
Covid-19 struck early in 2021 and affected the entire world. With little information about the disease and with no vaccine available, countries dealt with the pandemic in different ways and most tried variations on lockdowns. These lockdowns had the most effect on...
by Saqib Saeed | 2021, March, 17 | Saqib Saeed, Transformers
In the United Kingdom, as in most places, the electricity distribution network was built to have electricity flow one way, from power stations to customers. As the UK moves to net zero emissions there will be an increase in distributed generation and this will require...
by Kamil Maqsood | 2021, March, 8 | HVDC, Kamil Maqsood, Power Electronics, Power Quality, Reactive Power, SVCs/STATCOMs, Switchgear, Transformers
Frigid temperatures in Texas last month pushed almost 4 million people into darkness as the electricity grid collapsed. This spurred debate and stirred controversy globally in the energy sector regarding the cause behind such widespread power outage. Initially,...
by Saqib Saeed | 2021, January, 29 | Commercial Vehicles, Energy Storage, Industrial Automation, Off-Highway Vehicles, Power Electronics, Power Quality, Reactive Power, Saqib Saeed, SVCs/STATCOMs, Switchgear, Transformers
Summary Share of Generation from coal saw a substantial decrease in 2019. T&D losses decreased by 0.9 %, accounted for 7.6 % of total demand in 2019. Interruptions in the flow of electricity through interconnections between UK and EU is not expected in any post...
