TORONTO, ON -- - The Board of Directors of Hydro One Inc. today announced the appointment of Tom Parkinson as President and Chief Executive Officer of Hydro One Inc. "Choosing Tom Parkinson was a ...

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 ...

Industrial production processes often involve induction motors due to their reliability and simplicity. However, induction motors can result in increased lagging power factor burdens in a plant, ...

Saving electricity becomes an increasingly important issue the more the cost of power increases. There is no such thing as cheap electricity. That is a basic fact in today's world of increasing costs ...

A power quality anayzer is used to measure electric power signals to determine the load's ability to function properly with that electric power. Without the correct electric power, electrical ...

CHICAGO, ILLINOIS - Exelon Corp. unveiled plans to build a $60 million solar power plant on Chicago's South Side, a small step to fighting climate change that leans heavily on government funding due ...

The watt-hour (Wh) is a unit of energy equivalent to a single watt (1 Watt) of electricity expended for duration of one hour (1 hour). While the watthour is not a standard unit in any formal system, ...

A fuse is an electrical safety device that protects electrical circuits and electronics devices from damage caused by excessive current. It does so by melting and breaking the circuit when the current ...

LONDON, UK - We have seen the advent of hybrid cars, hybrid trains and even hybrid tanks. Now General Electric (GE) has announced that it has successfully tested a giant hybrid dump truck. Writing on ...

ROME, ITALY - Major Italian utility Enel SpA, in partnership with Electricite de France SA EDF, started a market survey back in January to evaluate the abilities of the Italian firms involved in the ...

Wireless electricity, or wireless power transmission, was first conceptualized by Nikola Tesla, a pioneer in the field of alternating current (AC) electricity. Tesla’s groundbreaking experiments at ...

Electricity generation is a process that involves the production of electrical power through various sources. In the United States, power production from utility-scale generators was about 4.1 ...