Editorial

Dear Read­ers,

First of all, I’d like to thank you all very much for tak­ing part in our read­er sur­vey. Your feed­back will help us make ONLOAD even more use­ful. There have been requests for addi­tion­al report­ing on changes to dis­tri­b­u­tion net­works and we will address these in this issue. We will show, for exam­ple, how reg­u­lat­ed dis­tri­b­u­tion trans­form­ers can ensure sta­bil­i­ty in indus­tri­al pow­er grids. What’s more, we offer prac­ti­cal and eco­nom­i­cal solu­tions for inte­grat­ing large wind and solar instal­la­tions into the grid.

Find­ing the best solu­tions for cus­tomers is also para­mount for our col­leagues at Rein­hausen Pow­er Com­pos­ites. Since acquir­ing MacLean Pow­er France, they have been able to man­u­fac­ture hol­low insu­la­tors using two dif­fer­ent meth­ods: liq­uid sil­i­cone rub­ber mold­ing and high-tem­per­a­ture vul­can­iz­ing. These meth­ods are used to pro­duce shield­ing prod­ucts that sat­is­fy even the most strin­gent qual­i­ty and safe­ty stan­dards. One exam­ple is the use of hol­low sup­port insu­la­tors at the ITER fusion reac­tor instal­la­tion in south­ern France.

The dig­i­tal rev­o­lu­tion is advanc­ing into ener­gy tech­nolo­gies as well. We are here to give you sup­port and guid­ance on the way to achiev­ing a dig­i­tal trans­former. From indi­vid­ual sen­sors to the over­ar­ch­ing con­trol sys­tem, we offer the right com­po­nents for all lev­els of automa­tion. And you can con­tin­ue to count on our sup­port even after com­mis­sion­ing.

Thanks for read­ing!

Michael Rohde