IEEE PES PLAIN TALK courses for the power industry professional will help you to understand technical aspects of the electric power industry, even if you do not have an engineering background. You ...

Keeping operations running up to speed is at the heart of today’s business world. In a 24/7 environment, there’s no room for error, and giving your customers the most bang for their buck is at the ...

Rationalizing an investment in a facility's infrastructure can be a difficult prospect for any plant engineer or technician, often requiring extensive justification. Investments that are deemed ...

Welcome to my first blog post that explores fundamental principles of electrical engineering and attempts to tease out some new insights. For many of you, this will be a refresh of concepts you ...

Among regulators, the simplest regulator circuit is for a low-dropout (LDO) voltage regulator whose topology is shown in Fig. 1. As a linear voltage regulator, its ...

When I began my power industry career years ago (initially in the chemistry lab of a coal-fired power plant), the criticality of proper chemistry control of steam boilers, cooling water systems, and ...

This generator can easily power a 1-2 kW transmitter and is inexpensive, but lacks auto-start and a changeover switch. Five years ago I wrote in Radio World about Hurricane Ike, a storm that had aimed ...

The Plain Talk courses at the 2022 IEEE PES T&D Conference for power industry professionals will provide a greater understanding of the technical aspects of the electric power industry, even if you do ...