In early 2006, KCP&L executives looked for ways to reduce system peak demand. The distribution automation engineering group proposed a voltage reduction option called dynamic voltage control (DVC).

Spanish grid operator Red Eléctrica de España (REE) said this week that it has authorized 24 renewable energy facilities to provide dynamic voltage control services under Operational Program 7.4 (OP 7 ...

The SC471(A) and SC475A synchronous, pulse-width modulation buck controllers squeeze the controller, driver, and voltage transition switches into 3 mm x 3 mm packages. The integrated ...

Why ultra-low-power micros are a challenge to design. How power management works in NXP’s MXC L family. I talked with Jeff Steinheider, General Manager of Industrial Edge Processing at NXP, about this ...

Xcel Energy uses flexible static VAR compensator topology to adapt to changing network conditions in New Mexico for more stability and voltage control. China Draw’s 115-kV, 30-MVAR C-type filter. In ...

Electricity transmission network operators are being tasked with adding more renewable energy resources to the power grid. The use of static VAR compensators (SVCs) is growing as a means to control ...

Reducing power consumption in portable equipment continues to drive innovation across all areas of IC design and will continue to do so well past the day when systems can operate solely on the power ...

It is necessary to reduce energy consumption in circuit operations toachieve longer battery life in mobile devices. One new energy reductionscheme is to combine dynamic voltage and frequency scaling ...

The 2025 International Solid State Circuits Conference was held in San Francisco from February 16 th to 20 th. IBM presented three papers [1,2,3] based on their Samsung 5nm Tellum II chip. These are ...

Voltage control was highlighted as a key factor in the Iberian power outage in April. Image: Andrey Metelev via Unsplash. An expert panel has identified a series of grid failures that led to April’s ...