A Balanced Approach to Asset Management
The management of critical power assets is essential to ensure the reliable delivery of electricity. As specialists in electric power systems, S&C offers a wide variety of Asset Management services...
View ArticleMicrogrids: An Old Idea with New Potential
Microgrids are hardly a new concept. Some of the earliest forms of microgrids have been in use for decades. However, new technologies are transforming what microgrids can do and allow a microgrid...
View ArticleSolving the Renewable Integration Puzzle with Smart Grid Technology
Electric power utilities are working diligently to meet renewable electricity mandates enacted by many governments around the world. Wind and solar energy generation, however, poses significant...
View ArticleS&C Awarded $2.6MM Contract to Upgrade 585 MW Wind Farm in Texas
Renewable integration solution will help project meet new ERCOT grid interconnection codes S&C Electric Company, a global leader in renewable energy integration, today announces it was awarded a...
View ArticlePureWave SMS Selected for Wind Institute of Canada Energy Storage Project
The Wind Energy Institute of Canada announced plans to install a battery energy storage system at their Wind R&D site in Prince Edward Island. The goal of the project is to demonstrate the many...
View ArticleNew S&C Engineering Office Building Will Support Delivery of Comprehensive...
Today, S&C Electric Company celebrates the groundbreaking of a new engineering offices building at S&C’s headquarters in Chicago, Illinois, USA. The new 52,000-square-foot building, dubbed...
View ArticleIntegrating Grid Technologies for a Low-Carbon Economy
The EU’s 2050 ‘energy roadmap’ for a carbon-neutral economy will fuel a staggering six-fold increase in peak electric power generation requirements, according to the UK’s Department of Energy and...
View ArticleWhite Paper: The Role of Energy Storage in Smart Microgrids
As discussion around development of a smart grid has steadily increased, so too has talk about smart microgrids. A critical ingredient for smart microgrids is energy storage. Energy storage can play a...
View ArticleEurope’s Largest Energy Storage Trial Launched
S&C, Samsung SDI, UK Power Networks and Younicos collaborate on Smarter Network Storage project, to confirm the commercial future of energy storage S&C Electric Europe, Samsung SDI and Younicos...
View ArticleS&C Helps California Wind Farm Rapidly Expand Capacity
S&C has released a new case study describing our work on the 102-MW expansion of a wind farm in California. The project used S&C’s Wind Turbine Style Vista® Switchgear and involved the...
View ArticleS&C’s Santa Rita Jail Microgrid Project Wins Energy Storage Innovation Award
The Energy Storage North America (ESNA) recently recognized S&C with an Innovation Award for their work on the Santa Rita Jail microgrid. Santa Rita Jail is located in Dublin, Calif., and is the...
View ArticleUnlocking the Potential of Wind Power with Energy Storage
The successful integration of energy storage with wind power plants holds great possibilities for plant owners and developers. Storing wind energy helps even the difference between the electricity...
View ArticleS&C Utilized to Secure UK Grid Compliance At Scotland Wind Project
Reactive Compensation Project Optimises Operation of Wind Turbines November 13, 2013 – S&C Electric Europe Ltd has successfully delivered reactive compensation equipment to the Bettyhill wind...
View ArticlePEER Association Course at the University of Maryland
On April 30, 2014, the Perfect Power Institute™ will conduct a PEER Associate Certificate Course at the University of Maryland. The Performance Excellence in Electricity Renewal (PEER) Program applies...
View ArticleS&C Pioneers Remote Monitoring of Wind-Turbine Style Vista Switchgear at...
New service offers more frequent reporting, avoids problems going unnoticed between inspections CHICAGO, May 6, 2014 – S&C Electric Company, a global leader in renewable energy integration, today...
View ArticleClose to Home: Addressing the Energy Challenge Within the Community
According to a new report from the Global Sustainability Institute, the UK only has five more years of fossil fuel resources, which could lead to much greater dependence on Norway, Qatar and Russia for...
View ArticleS&C Energy Storage System to Provide Grid Support for PJM
Solution demonstrates new revenue streams for continued energy storage investments CHICAGO, October 20, 2014 – S&C Electric Company, a global leader in energy storage integration, announces the...
View ArticleEurope’s Largest Battery-Storage Project Becomes Operational in the UK
S&C Electric, Samsung SDI, UK Power Networks and Younicos collaborate to launch the Smarter Network Storage project CHICAGO, December 15, 2014 – S&C Electric Company, a global leader in energy...
View ArticleS&C, Schneider Electric and Oncor Complete Innovative Microgrid
CHICAGO, April 7, 2015 — S&C Electric Company, a smart grid leader shaping the future of power delivery, and Schneider Electric, a global specialist in energy management, have announced the...
View Article60-MVAR Reactive Compensation System Helps Connect One of the UK’s Largest...
EDF Energy Renewables, which operates Scotland’s 144 MW Fallago Rig wind farm, relied on S&C to design and build a 60-MVAR reactive compensation system using S&C’s PureWave® DSTATCOM...
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