California public power utility Glendale Water & Power has successfully installed a new two-megawatt battery energy storage system, or BESS, next to the utility's newly upgraded Grandview Substation. The BESS can now instantaneously respond to shifts in systemic load, "providing GWP with an unprecedented capacity to regulate its transmission," the utility said on July 11...

Glendale Water & Power’s first air-insulated Grandview substation was built in 1930 and had been serving more than 1000 residential customers and 400 industrial and commercial customers in the Grand Central business district of the San Fernando Corridor in Glendale, California, U.S. However, the municipal-owned utility’s Grandview substation did not have capacity for the expected load growth in this part of Glendale, and its air-insulated switchgear (AIS) occupied a lot of precious real estate...

OCEANSIDE — San Diego Gas & Electric is plowing through a roughly $80 million upgrade to a key North County substation that officials say will provide 40,000 customers with a more reliable connection to the interstate power grid following the 2012 shutdown of the San Onofre Nuclear Generating Station...

Glendale Water & Power will be installing a new two megawatt battery energy storage system, or BESS, next to the public power utility's Grandview Substation, Glendale Water & Power said on Nov. 15. A groundbreaking event was scheduled to take place on Nov. 16, the utility said in a news release...

NATCHITOCHES – Beta Engineering of Pineville, Louisiana is completing three years of funding $6,000 for scholarships awarded to Northwestern State University students pursuing degrees in engineering technology. The scholarships are awarded to two students each academic year...

SAN DIEGO, Jan. 6, 2015 /PRNewswire/ -- San Diego Gas & Electric (SDG&E) announced today that the new East County (ECO) Substation project has been energized and is now operating as an integral part of SDG&E's electric transmission system. The entire project includes a new 58 acre state-of-the-art substation in the East County community of Jacumba, an upgraded substation in Boulevard and a 14-mile transmission line connecting the two substations...

The western Arizona desert has become a popular location for constructing large solar projects. The sunshine is plentiful and there are large tracts of non-prime farmland available that make building utility-scale photovoltaic (PV) plants, such as the Agua Caliente Solar Project, attractive...

Agua Caliente Solar farm is a 290MW photovoltaic (PV) power project located in the east Yuma County of Arizona, US. It is owned by NRG Energy and MidAmerican Energy Holdings and is currently the world’s biggest photovoltaic solar power plant...

The second quarter of 2012 was a record quarter for the utility solar market segment with 477 megawatts deployed out of the total 742 megawatts installed in the quarter, according to the most recent U.S. Solar Market Insight. Leading the utility solar pack is the world's largest solar farm -- the Agua Caliente behemoth in Yuma County, Arizona...

A new 117-mile transmission line now winds through a national forest, traverses an arid desert and climbs through the mountains of California from Imperial County to San Diego County. Called the Sunrise Powerlink, the recently energized line is comprised of two 230-kV segments (one overhead and one underground), a 500-kV segment and a new 500-kV/230-kV transmission substation called Suncrest substation...