Feature Story
The only time most of us think about electricity is when the lights go out. Then we complain until our computers power back up and the microwave beeps.
TEES power system engineers working with public utility companies have developed and patented an array of technology that allows the power grid to take its own pulse and warn operators when it's getting ready to get sick.
In Texas and across the rest of the United States, the electric power grid is one of the big success stories of modern technology, and it works so well that we never notice it until it stops working. And it does -- more often than you think. Every day, if you know where to look. These unseen outages leave more people in the dark every year than the catastrophic power failures in the Northeast in 2003 that turned out the lights on 40 million people.
The computer-controlled monitoring system reads the subtle electrical signals that pass through the system when a switch or a transformer or a capacitor is getting ready to fail and warns power system technicians in time for them to replace the failing part and keep the lights on.
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