Impact of High Powered Electronics on Power Quality
Wednesday, November 4, 2026
11:00 AM ET
About this class
The plummeting cost of high voltage/high power semiconductors and waveform-sampling microcontrollers is creating a new generation of power-hungry loads with minds of their own.
Increasingly, electrical compatibility between the utility and load is a matter of satisfying an intelligent controller's thresholds rather than the physical needs of a load. With solar and wind growth, this complexity extends even to generation. During this 1-hour webinar, challenges from these trends are outlined, along with possibilities for incorporating these trends on the utility side of the meter to address them.
Your presenter
Chris Mullins
Chris Mullins is the President of Power Monitors, Inc. His 30-plus years at PMI have given him an extensive background in power quality, power line communications, and instrumentation design, with patents in each area. He is an active member of several IEEE standards groups and has authored more than 70 white papers. He holds a BS in Electrical Engineering from the University of Virginia.
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