Switchgear Magazine Volume 03 Issue 2

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Editorial Message

Dear Readers,

Welcome to this Special Issue on Next-generation asset management: Monitoring, AI, and predictive maintenance.

Across the articles slated for this edition, there is a narrative shift. While topics range from interoperability standards to predictive analytics, the subtext is united by a call for engineering discipline over hype. The energy transition cannot be solved by plugging in new technologies and trusting algorithms to figure it out. Next-generation asset management draws resources to confront the hard physical and operational limits of our evolving grid infrastructure.

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Standard deviation: Compliant but locked out

by Douglas Maly

A protection relay can pass every international conformance test yet still be permanently locked out of a substation. Douglas Maly documents how open standards are being weaponised.

PD and corona physics

by Marius Grisaru

Partial discharge and corona are crucial early indicators of high-voltage insulation weakness, yet they are very different phenomena.

BESS grid integration

by Hanane Oudli

As AI data centres drive massive new transient loads while legacy synchronous inertia declines, Battery Energy Storage Systems (BESS) are increasingly deployed as grid shock absorbers.

Spurious correlations

by Tony McGrail

As artificial intelligence and digital twins become integral to asset management, the power sector faces a new risk: blindly trusting spurious correlations.