Virginia Tech engineers Thorp and Phadke lead nation's efforts t...

Courtesy EurekAlert! - Chemistry, Physics and Materials Sciences  Mon, 09/07/2009 - 22:00

(Virginia Tech) Arun Phadke and James Thorp, recipients of the 2008 Benjamin Franklin Medal in Electrical Engineering and members of the National Academy of Engineering, have developed a number of advances that strengthen the electric utility industry's ability to prevent power grid blackouts, or to make them less intense and easier to recover from.

Newly funded work will advance technologies that rely on the exchange of synchrophasor data among electric utility companies and other electricity entities.

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