Southern States Mobile Substation

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Southern States Mobile Substation

Leveraging our partnership with various ISO certified transformer manufacturers, Southern States has the resources to design or retrofit mobile substations that can be outfitted with Southern States’ or your preferred switchgear brands. Available up to 230 kV and 65 MVA, our mobile products are manufactured with stringent specifications, ensuring the design is robust, durable, and to the utility’s expectations. For additional applications, Southern States also offers auxiliary mobile solutions to support reactive power compensation, switchgear failures, as well as other utility resiliency initiatives.

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Southern States TranSwitcher®

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Southern States TranSwitcher®

The Southern States TranSwitcher® is a renewable intertie solution designed specifically for switching and protection of power transformers. Its unique design makes it ideally suited for distribution systems that intertie with solar farms as well as other distributed energy resources. The use of a “soft close” helps to minimize system voltage drops and potential ferro-resonance issues caused by the high inrush currents associated with DER transformer energization. Employing the TranSwitcher® can help utilities increase the life of their transformer as well as maintain system power quality.

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Nbisiing Power Grand Opening

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Nbisiing Power Grand Opening

Nbisiing Power’s opening ceremony on May 27th was a huge success, with great representation from the Nipissing First Nation community, it's leaders and from industry suppliers. Several executives from partner suppliers made the trip and it was great to have them there taking time away from their businesses to support Nbisiing Power. Special thanks to Christine Goulais for all her hard work to pull the event together.

With the business now open and active, several job postings are currently active as the company is looking to grow! Those interested can find the postings on the NFN website.

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EDIST 2022

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EDIST 2022

After a virtual event and a small break, we are back in-person at the Electricity, Distribution, Information Systems and Technology (EDIST) Conference & Exhibition! This educational conference and exhibition always addresses critical engineering, operational, IT and management issues faced by Ontario’s Local Distribution Companies. Suppliers, manufacturers and service providers have the opportunity to network and showcase their products and services, and as Canada’s leading sales agent in the electrical industry, Composite Power Group will be exhibiting again! Composite Power Group is a proud, long term sponsor of the EDA since 2006!

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Substation Specific Offering

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Substation Specific Offering

Composite Power Group is your one stop shop for entire range of products and solutions for Substation of any type and size. Our partners are world class local Canadian and international solution providers leaders in their space. We can help you with fencing, switches, breakers, power transformers. reactors, P&C buildings, structures, and everything in-between from grounding, connectors, and pre-cast cable trench system to name the few. Just engage us and we got you covered!

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Open Rack Capacitor Bank Fusing

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Open Rack Capacitor Bank Fusing

Capacitor banks is merely a grouping of capacitors of the same rating. Shunt capacitor banks are primarily used to improve the power factor in the network. They also improve the voltage stability and reduce network losses. Improving the power factor also means a higher power transmission capability and increased control of the power flow. Today we’ll look at the available options of fusing for open rack cap banks. We’ll learn what is the best solutions for reliability and reduce power loss.

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Transmission Pole Purchasing Guide

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Transmission Pole Purchasing Guide

Valmont Industries, Inc. is a large, publicly held American manufacturer and Composite Power Group is the sales contact for Valmont Utility in Canada. Our sales engagement extends through Valmont Utility® for steel structures for transmission, distribution and substation applications and Valmont Shakespeare for composite structures for transmission, distribution and substations applications. In today’s post, we want to talk about how to buy a steel transmission or distribution pole, specifically tapered, tubular structures.

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Chilled Mirror Analyzer

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Chilled Mirror Analyzer

A common challenge for substation maintenance personnel is to accurately measure the moisture contaminant in SF6 gas. The SF6 Mirror Analyzer works by utilizing the dew point principle: the cooling of a volume of gas until condensation forms to measure moisture content. The chilled mirror technology allows for highly accurate results over a wide range of dew points.

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What is “Good” Grounding and Why is it Important?

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What is “Good” Grounding and Why is it Important?

Electrical systems need to be rigorously designed to be safe in both normal operating conditions, as well as during fault and lightning strike conditions. There are numerous electrical safety mechanisms, including circuit breakers and arresters, whose sole purpose is to handle “non-normal” flows of electricity by sending the flow directly to ground. However, in order to function correctly and predictably over the life of the system, these safety systems rely on low impedance, low resistance, pathways to ground.

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Introducing ArcAngel™

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Introducing ArcAngel™

With more than 100 years of experience in the industry, Copperweld® is trusted by some of the largest utilities in the world, including major Canadian utilities in Ontario, British Columbia, Manitoba and Saskatchewan.

Copperweld® launched the ArcAngel™ line of conductors, which performs like copper and is just as flexible, if not more, it feels like copper! With the ArcAngel™ line of conductors, you get Copperweld®’s strength and theft deterrence as well as copper’s performance and flexibility!

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Rethink Grounding Designs: Copper Prices, Copperweld and Conductive Fills.

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Rethink Grounding Designs: Copper Prices, Copperweld and Conductive Fills.

Copper prices are at record highs. Copperweld is the best hedge against these rising costs when it comes to electrical grounding. Other modern materials like conductive fills can also help reduce the costs of grounding designs.

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Copperweld Launches “Get Wired” Blog : Copper Prices are back to record highs. Are you specifying Copperweld for grounding applications?

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Copperweld Launches “Get Wired” Blog : Copper Prices are back to record highs. Are you specifying Copperweld for grounding applications?

Copperweld Launched a new section of their website this month called their “Get Wired” blog. The new blog has a series of new videos explaining their product and its application. This new blog is a great reference for engineers, designers or installers looking to develop a deeper understanding of Copperweld.

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