A 240-volt service powers heavy-duty appliances like ovens, air conditioners, water heaters and electric dryers. If something goes wrong in that panel, it may cause those systems to fail, damage the ...
Prasad Kandula and Marcio Magri Kimpara set up testing of ORNL-developed medium-voltage circuit breakers that use affordable semiconductors to protect grid systems that use direct current. Researchers ...
Researchers at the Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) are utilizing faster circuit breakers to enable and protect the modern electric grid. The ORNL team developed ...