We're all familiar with two dimensional design drawings — not to mention the questions that usually accompany them because they can provide only so much information before becoming hopelessly ...

In the early 2000s, I vividly recall my father, a self-taught programmer and electrical engineer, developing a Visual Basic application to calculate voltage regulation for his local utility company.

For many utilities and their engineering contractors, the substation design process has remained virtually unchanged since Computer-Aided Drafting (CAD) replaced manual 2D drawing methods. This ...