The City of Peterborough said Wednesday it has agreed to sell Peterborough Distribution Inc. to Hydro One for $105 million. The deal requires the approval of the Ontario Energy Board. According to the ...

A little energy lost in a transformer must be dissipated as heat. Although this energy is but a small portion of the total energy undergoing transformation, it becomes quite large in amount in ...

Transformer grounding (or sometimes called "earthing") s a crucial practice in electrical power systems, providing safety, stability, and protection against electrical faults. Transformers are the ...

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Many people think Benjamin Franklin invented electricity with his famous kite-flying experiments in 1752. Franklin is famous for tying a key to a kite string during a thunderstorm, proving that static ...

A Voltmeter provides a method to accurately measure voltage, which is the difference in electric potential, between two points in a circuit while not changing the voltage in that circuit. It is an ...

FRESNO COUNTY, CALIFORNIA - Nearly 700 Pacific Gas & Electric Co. customers in Fresno, Madera, Kings and Tulare counties are getting new smart meters to replace faulty ones the utility said have ...

Impedance is the total opposition a cable offers to alternating current. It includes both resistance and reactance and is generally expressed in Ohms. At the fundamental frequency, power systems are ...

There are two types of Electricity, Static Electricity and Current Electricity. Static Electricity is made by rubbing together two or more objects and making friction while Current electricity is the ...

NFPA 70e Training - Our 6-Hour live online instructor-led arc flash and shock protection course is designed to introduce front-line qualified electrical workers to the electrical safety regulations ...

A watt is a unit of power, named after engineer James Watt, which measures the rate of energy transfer. A watt is a unit of power that measures the rate at which energy flows or is consumed. One watt ...