Over 140 000 South Africans no longer have to deal with load reduction blackouts, and more are on the way according to Eskom.

The South African government and Eskom won’t declare the end of load-shedding until it has eradicated load reduction in the country, and the power utility has announced an intensified effort to end ...

In early 2006, KCP&L executives looked for ways to reduce system peak demand. The distribution automation engineering group proposed a voltage reduction option called dynamic voltage control (DVC).

Today, distributed energy resources such as distributed generation and local energy storage present the most worrisome challenge to effective voltage control. Controlling voltage is a fundamental task ...