Refashioning our electric grid to move generation closer to load creates a host of benefits. (Two-hundred and seven, according to Amory Lovins.) Among them is an increase in grid reliability, since ...

Reliability of measurements and measurers is important so that we can trust the measurements we record. However, the statistical techniques used to assess reliability of measurements or measurers in ...

Brazilian Journal of Probability and Statistics, Vol. 23, No. 2 (December 2009), pp. 107-119 (13 pages) This work presents a comparison of results about the accuracy of statistical routines from four ...

When measuring reliability, electric utilities must go beyond the percentage of time the power is flowing and look at a bigger picture of their operational health. “Keeping the lights on” is a ...

To improve overall reliability, ComEd has undertaken efforts to further segment and sectionalize customers, reducing impacts due to outages. Utilities are in the midst of a massive transformation ...

For the seventh year in a row, cloud backup service Backblaze has published its annual hard drive reliability statistics. The company now manages a total of 162,530 data drives. An interesting thing ...

ORR has requested and received regional performance improvement plans. Credit: Pixabay. The Office of Rail and Road (ORR) has shared statistics that demonstrate a decline in the reliability of trains ...