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Lol, I was trying to avoid the “foam of the beer” reactive power description

Figured I’d share my bedroom setup as well. Mitsubishi DA series with an Oppo 983 for CD’s

There’s similar here for public positions but the filtering is clunky.

I was leaving the overtime totals out but you’re correct. One of my friends & former coworkers cleared 400 last year. I didn’t come near that but had much more time off than he did.

That’ll depend greatly on the area you’re in & what desk you’re working. In CA the lowest paying entity I’m aware of compensates in the neighborhood of $60-65/hr. The highest is close to $130/hr with the average falling in the $80-95/hr range. One of my dispatchers recently put his 2wk...

Even though Alberta is in WECC (like myself) I’m not very familiar with their current asset mix. Your province has undergone some major changes lately even in the Reliability Coordinator position. I believe you’re on your 3rd Reliability Coordinator since 2018 & are now supplying the RC duties...

I've been reading through some older posts about CA utilities & peoples view that they are making money from the "free" power supplied by residential PV systems. Public Utilities DO NOT make money from power sales. Public Utilities make their income by a set percentage of return from...

I should probably add that when a power system "runs out" of reactive power, you end up going past the "knee of the curve". This is the point of voltage collapse. You can see on here that the curve quickly returns as it collapses. Adding capacitors & additional reactive power will extend the...

I entered utilities not long after deregulation in CA so have spent my career playing "catchup" with the rest of the state and its "growing pains" to continually adapt to changing market conditions.

I'll just give a very basic answer at this time and can elaborate if further explanation is needed. I've had several instructors explain VAR in ways that never made sense to me. The easiest for me was understanding that the field of an AC induction motor consumes VAR. Other consumers, say...

You picked up on the username lol. What would you like to know about reactive power?

Here is the NERC report on the NE blackout of 2003: https://www.nerc.com/pa/rrm/ea/August%2014%202003%20Blackout%20Investigation%20DL/NERC_Final_Blackout_Report_07_13_04.pdf

It's great to finally create an account here. Any questions you have? Quebec is a bit unique as far as interconnections go. Technically it's part of the eastern interconnection but is operated as it's own (Like ERCOT/TRE).

Here's a site some of you may want to look at: https://dr.loudness-war.info/ Shows varying levels of compression on albums releases in different formats.

Hello BITOG community. I've been lurking this forum for at least a decade but decided to join a few days ago. Made a few posts in one of @OVERKILL threads and there seemed to be a bit of interest in power system operations so I decided to make an AMA. Was going to do this a couple days ago but...

Difficult to see but on my phone at work. The Gas pedal is missing so its just the armature you have to press on for the throttle.

DCPP was in my old control area as a transmission operator 😉 never knew about the test for AGC with one of the units. Isochronous mode is selected for the unit with the largest mw range and fastest ramping ability in the stated island. Isoch is a zero droop setting so the unit selected will...

I’ll have to read that when back at a desktop. Nuke units down here are baseloaded only. No regulation (the only test I previously read had very slow ramp rates that just barely reached 3mw/min). In fact, top priority during blackout restoration is to supply 230kV offsite power to any nuclear...

Another positive for turbines is droop control. When there is a large disturbance to the grid & Hz takes a hit in either the up or down direction, the governor droop control will respond nearly instantly in the opposite direction to help arrest Hz decline or increase. The physical mass of the...