Doble In The News

Condition monitoring programs provide meaningful, real-time information to help reduce risk, lower failure rates, anticipate issues and keep operations running smoothly. In order to improve methods for diagnosing transformer health and develop a successful condition monitoring program, it’s imperative to follow these four steps.

As requirements to meet critical infrastructure protection (CIP) standards from NERC grow, the person helping a utility meet those testing and compliance obligations will become more important. Programs like EURST become increasingly important, according to Lampley and program partner Doble Engineering Company’s President Dave Zabetakis.

America’s electric industry is facing many challenges in the coming years. One of the main hurdles to be addressed is the looming talent gap. That’s where Doble Engineering Company and Richmond Community College (RCC) come into the picture with the latter’s unique two-year Electric Utility Substation Relay Technology Program.

At a powerplant, a great deal of attention is given to rotating machines and everything else needed to generate electricity. The substation often gets overlooked; it is outside the plant and requires a different skill set to maintain. But it is on the critical path from generation to profit.

Owning a transformer means making many big-money decisions, but those decisions aren’t always clear or straightforward.

Doble helps utilities assure the reliability of their electrical distribution and transmission systems — in other words, the power comes on when you need it.

This is the first year Doble Engineering hosted the Finepoint Circuit Breaker Test Conference, which has been running for 20 years — every fourth year returning to Atlanta. This year the event was held from Oct. 7-10 and drew 485 attendees representing 200 companies.