Efacec Advanced Control Systems will provide smart grid technology for Avista’s $42 million Spokane Smart Circuits project, and its $38 million Smart Grid Demonstration Project in Pullman, Washington.

Nearly 50 distribution circuits will be upgraded this year with reclosers or sectionalizers. PECO is also upgrading telecommunication equipment on existing devices to enable them to share information ...

This paper shows a technical solution to locate and to identify an electrical load and to allocate it with controllers for interchanging clearing and control information e.g. in smart grid ...