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SEL was founded in Pullman, Washington in 1982 when Dr. Edmund O. Schweitzer III invented and marketed the first all-digital protective relay. Schweitzer created the relay as a Ph.D. project while at Washington State University. He sold his first product, the SEL-21, to Otter Tail Power Company in Fergus Falls, Minnesota in 1984. Otter Tail ...
In the late 1970s, he served on the electrical engineering faculties for Washington State University and Ohio University. In 1982, he launched Schweitzer Engineering Laboratories in 1982 from his basement in Pullman, Washington. As of 2023, the employee-owned company has more than 6,000 employees. [3]
The former Grid West participants who had argued for an eventual RTO, mainly investor-owned utilities and state representatives from Oregon, Idaho, Montana, Wyoming and Utah, formed the Northern Tier Transmission Group (NTTG), a nascent effort open to evolution but initially focused on inexpensive and relatively easy improvements to grid ...
The Office of Electricity (OE) is a program office within the United States Department of Energy.The mission of OE is to work "closely with [...] private and public partners" and "lead the Department’s efforts to ensure that the Nation’s most critical energy infrastructure is secure and resilient."
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Itron, a spinoff of Spokane-based Avista Corp., formerly Washington Water Power Co., was founded in 1977 in Hauser Lake, Idaho when a small group of engineers wanted to build a more efficient way to read utility meters. [7] [8] In 1984, Itron experienced global expansion into the Asian market and developed new manufacturing plants in France and ...
David J. Comer received the BSEE degree from San Jose State University, the MSEE degree from the University of California, Berkeley and the PhD from Washington State University. He spent five years with IBM 's Advanced Systems Development Division working in the automatic speech recognition area and the automated warehousing area.
The electrical energy generation mix in 2023 was 43.5% hydroelectric, 32.1% natural gas, 15% wind, 5.5% solar, 2.8% biomass, 0.6% geothermal, and 0.5% other. [1] During 2021, Idaho was one of the top-five U.S. states in its share of renewable electricity generation. It has a rapidly growing population and many undeveloped resources.