Last week I met Jean-Paul Lionet, a member of IEC technical committee who participates to the evolution of Low Voltage Switchgear & Control Gear Assemblies standards. Below is the summary he...
New standard IEC61439-2 for low-voltage switchgear and controlgear assemblies
The day I’ve faced a fire in electrical installation (career story)
Hello there, I’m B.M. and just like few electrical engineers before me, I wanted to share my story and tell you about the day I’ve faced a FIRE in my electrical installation. Please note that the...
Hydro Generator: loss of power & efficiency
Hello everybody, my name is Mile and I want to share my experience in a power plant based in Macedonia. The tests for determining the losses of power in synchronous generators are of great...
Power transformer Grid station fire in Pakistan (career story)
Let’s continue our saga about electrical installations that caught FIRE with another career story sent by an electrical engineer from Pakistan. In fact, Muhammad experienced a transformer fire...
Storage Systems for Renewable Energies
Renewable Energies Context An important limitation that renewable energies have is that they depend on natural flows, in other words, their production is not continuous, which is why in many cases...
Electrical installation fire: Medium Voltage Autotransformer Fault (career story)
What happens when a MV AutoTransformer misconnection and a LV breaker hooked up to an inadequate wire size meet? FIRE! Here’s a story that D.Ros, an electrical engineer based in Germany, kindly...
