A new ASTM International specification will help standardize production and use of bimetallic “bus bar” (copper-clad aluminum flat-strip and flat-wire that distributes high-current power). A ...

After a small engine plant began experiencing severe power quality problems and the subsequent investigation showed the wireways weren't electrically continuous, the facilities team found the solution ...

Almost all overhead electricity lines use the same basic design that’s been in use since 1908. TS Conductor has redesigned them to transmit more power, without changing utility poles. Though the use ...

This is a time of stress in the electric utility industry as demand escalates. But the way to alleviate it may neither be in new generation nor in new transmission installations. Instead it may be ...

Key learning points Electrical charges What are free electrons? Cell polarity Conventional current direction Electrons orbit the nucleus. An atom has a neutral charge, because it contains the same ...