ASHEVILLE - As more development moves into a burgeoning downtown, energy needs accelerate with it, and the fate of a more than 60-year-old Duke Energy substation casts a long shadow on local business ...

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 ...

To improve the efficiency and quality of its substation design, American Electric Power (AEP) began using the 3-D modeling capabilities of Bentley's Micro-Station V8i for its standard substation ...