New power grids or smarter grids? Finding hidden spare capacity could unlock the bottlenecks to net zero
By Amir Cohen, CEO at EGM Our power grids face a perfect storm of climate change, and a mass of renewable technologies and electric appliances coming online that could cause an unprecedented capacity crunch. Recent reports indicate that net zero risks running into an electric grid bottleneck with insufficient capacity to support the massive integration […]
The Hidden Threat to Power Quality on the Electric Grid
The electrification of transport and industry will see the electric grid becoming a single point of failure across the economy so that disruption to power quality will have wider ripple effects than before. And as distribution grids intersect with millions of new appliances from EV chargers to heat pumps, this will drive an exponential increase […]
The Effect of Accurate Fault Location Detection (AFLD[1]) on Grid Reliability
Kobi Yahav, Ph.D. Nurit Gal, Ph.D. Abstract The reliability of the US distribution grid is deteriorating due to aging infrastructure, extreme weather events, and transmission congestions which affect overall reliability. We have studied the contribution of technology that provides an accurate fault location detection (AFLD) to a reduction in System Average Interruption Duration Index (SAIDI). […]
EGM and Israel Electric Company sign a Strategic Cooperation and Investment Agreement
IEC will invest $1 million in monitoring and analytics of the grid. An agreement for a strategic cooperation and investment was signed between IEC and EGM Ltd. for grid monitoring through sensors.IEC will invest $1 million as part of a $17 million raising round, to unable the development and deployment of EGM’s system to monitor […]
Failure Prediction
The electricity market is rapidly changing. Consumers are becoming producers; centralized markets are shifting towards distributed energy resources; renewable energies take on more of the load; underground grids and an almost absolute reliance by the end users – those are just a few examples. An important effect which derives from all of that is that […]
From Reliability to Resilience: Rising Severe Weather from Climate Change Threatens Grid Operations
It is a common understanding among utilities and grid operators that one of the most significant challenges they face is extreme weather events. Predictions for the coming decade talk about increase in the number as well as the volume of extreme weather events such as rise in temperatures, less water availability, rise in sea level, […]
Big Data Analytics via EGM Meta-Alert system
As the world’s leading utilities are moving towards reliance on smart grid, those utilities now face a new challenge of dealing with tremendous amounts of data generated by that smart grid. Those challenges come into play mainly in terms of data storage, data processing, data analysis, and data security. This is where big data analytics […]
Employing EGM’s Meta-AlertTM System for Condition Based Monitoring
One of the common notions in today’s electric market is that in order to make the most of the grid, a utility needs to implement condition based monitoring. The logic behind condition based monitoring is that the maintenance should be adjusted to the actual status of the grid, rather than to a fixed set of […]
The Importance of Exhaustive Grid Monitoring for Distributed Energy Resources Management
What is DERM and What are its Goals EGM is one of only four companies worldwide that has been selected to participate in the Shell GameChangerTM Accelerator Powered by NREL (GCxN). Under this auspice EGM collaborates with NREL to evaluate the essentiality of EGM’s Smart Monitoring and Insight Generation System (Smart M&IG System) for Distributed […]
EGM solutions being presented at Metering India 2019 conference
EGM solutions being presented at Metering India 2019 conference, hosting some 500 industry executives. EGM grid monitoring solutions were presented at the event key note speech, delivered by Mr. Elad Shaviv, CEO of the Israeli Smart Energy Association, as a case study for the evolution of grid and the migration from smart meters to a […]