As electrical professionals, it’s important to have a basic understanding of several design criteria that are important to the design, operation, and maintenance of electrical distribution systems.

Electrical power distribution systems have gone through some significant evolutions in capability over the last few decades. The traditional distribution system is the interconnection of various power ...

While a small percentage of electricity customers are served directly from the transmission system, the vast majority of the 165 million customers in the United States are served by the distribution ...

In the past few articles, we have looked into several different building components including structure, HVAC, roofs, in addition to performance based design. One important building component that we ...

The electric power distribution system in the U.S. has over 55 million miles of power lines with over 180 million utility poles. Utility poles line our streetways, and highways and carry power to ...