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).

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 ...

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 ...

Dynamic Voltage Restoration (DVR) represents a critical solution in modern power systems, where the increasing penetration of renewable energy sources and non-linear loads has escalated the challenge ...

Dynamic voltage and frequency scaling (DVFS) techniques — along with associated techniques such as dynamic voltage scaling (DVS) and adaptive voltage and frequency scaling (AVFS) — are very effective ...

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 ...

Westborough-based American Superconductor Corp., an electricity solutions company, has sold two dynamic voltage control systems to a large North American wind farm. Westborough-based American ...

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 ...