Schweitzer Engineering Laboratories Releases 2024 Index of Freedom

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The IT World Today and the Enemies of Complexity and Opacity

Rutgers study finds that multinational ESOP (Employee Stock Ownership Plan)-owned companies appear to derive competitive advantages in international markets from being employee-owned. 

Rutgers Study Shows the Effects of Employee Ownership Can Transcend Borders

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SEL promotes five long-time employees to VP positions

SEL Promotes Five Employees to Vice President

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SEL awards $5,000 scholarships to 14 outstanding students working to earn degrees in engineering

SEL Scholarship Program Awards 14 Scholarships for 2024–2025 Academic Year

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SEL has introduced the SEL-TWFL Dual Traveling-Wave Fault Locator and 12-Channel MHz Recorder, a standalone device that provides accurate fault locating, line monitoring and high-resolution event recording.

Introducing the SEL-TWFL Dual Traveling-Wave Fault Locator and 12-Channel MHz Recorder

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Tom Foley is “one of the finest citizens our state ever produced” and a “quintessential American patriot.” Those are just a few words Gen. James Mattis, another fine citizen our state produced, used to describe the legendary former speaker of the House last week in Spokane while receiving the first-ever Thomas S. Foley Award for Distinguished Public Service.

Edmund and Beatriz Schweitzer: Mattis an Excellent Choice for First Foley Award

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SEL Chief Sales & Customer Service Officer David Costello will retire after 28 years with the company.

David Costello Retires From Schweitzer Engineering Laboratories

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SEL has introduced the SEL-787L Line Current Differential Relay, which delivers economical, fast, secure and dependable line current differential protection for distribution and industrial applications.

Introducing the SEL-787L Line Current Differential Relay

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SEL CFO appointed by Governor Jay Inslee to serve on the Washington Employee Ownership Commission.

SEL Chief Business and Financial Officer Appointed to Washington Employee Ownership Commission

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SEL recently introduced several enhancements to Fault Location, Isolation, and Service Restoration (FLISR) on the SEL Blueframe application platform.

New to FLISR—Automatic Configuration Using GIS Data

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In December, the House passed legislation (H.R. 5378) that includes provisions bolstering legal requirements that health-care providers and insurers disclose information about health-care costs. Similar bipartisan legislation (S. 3548) has been introduced in the Senate, but no action has yet been taken.

Employers Push Against Insurers Blocking Access to Health Data

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SEL engineers visit Potlatch Elementary to teach kids grades 1-6 how to code.

An Hour of Code—and Then Some

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SEL President Ed Schweitzer Testifies Before Congressional Committee

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SEL Vice President of Research & Development Normann Fischer has been named part of the 2024 Class of IEEE Fellows. 

SEL VP of R&D Normann Fischer Elevated to IEEE Fellow

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SEL has expanded its networking portfolio with the new SEL-2731 Ethernet Switch.

New Ethernet Switch Expands on Predecessor Capabilities

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SEL wins Idaho Business Review 2023 Top Project of the Year award

SEL Receives 2023 Top Project of the Year Award for PCB Factory

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Schweitzer Engineering Laboratories, a global leader in products and solutions that protect and control electric power systems, is the 15th largest 100 percent employee-owned company in the United States, according to the National Center for Employee Ownership (NCEO). 

SEL Ranks 15th on List of Largest Employee-Owned Companies in America

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Dr. Ed Schweitzer's keynote address at 2023 WPRC

The Early Days of WPRC

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Join us for a webinar on October 25, 2023, to learn about the benefits of GIS integration, two new Blueframe apps that enable GIS functionality, and more. 

Webinar: The Next Evolution in FLISR Simplicity—Automatic Configuration With GIS Data

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SEL Names New Chief Technology Officer

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Dr. Edmund O. Schweitzer, III, founder, president and chief technology officer of Schweitzer Engineering Laboratories, delivered a keynote at the WSU Power Professorship Program 50th Anniversary Celebration on September 15, 2023, in Pullman.

Dr. Ed Schweitzer Delivers Keynote at WSU Power Professorship Program 50th Anniversary Celebration

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One Energy Enterprises all digital substation incorporates the Schweitzer Engineering Laboratories TiDL system, as well as Hitachi Energy’s 30 MVA transformer and high-voltage circuit breakers.

One Energy Enterprises’ Digital Substation in Findlay, Ohio, Energized and Operational

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SEL and SDG&E recently released an article and video describing how they collaborated to develop and implement a software tool that enhances real-time grid operations.

Software Advances Grid Operations at SDG&E

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On October 4, 2023, join us for a webinar about our next-generation solution for automated data collection: the Data Management and Automation (DMA) application suite on the SEL Blueframe application platform.

Webinar: Streamline Data Collection and Fleet Management With DMA on Blueframe

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Edmund O. Schweitzer III, president and chief technology officer of Schweitzer Engineering Laboratories, opposes the recent directive from Washington Attorney General Bob Ferguson preventing Puget Sound Energy (PSE) from disclosing the reason for the new utility rate increase on customers’ bills.

SEL President Opposes Concealment of Cap-and-Trade Tax for Utility Customers

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Join us for a live webinar on September 6, 2023, to learn about the advanced DFR and substation monitoring solutions that SEL offers. We’ll also share recent DFR innovations, including continuous oscillography streaming and recording, simplified configuration, advanced asset monitoring and digital signal processing capabilities, and more.  

Webinar: Innovating DFR Solutions—Continuous Oscillography, Asset Monitoring, and More

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With one of its key components—printed circuit boards—in short supply, Schweitzer Engineering Laboratories chose the proactive solution: it would begin making them itself. 

A Homegrown Solution: Schweitzer Engineering Laboratories Makes Printed Circuit Boards

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SEL Names New VP of Marketing

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Join us in this live webinar on July 26, 2023, to learn about high-impedance bus differential protection solutions and the benefits of the SEL-787Z High-Impedance Differential Relay and SEL-HZM High-Impedance Module. This two-box solution offers a full suite of communications protocols to support integration into an existing network as well as operational and mounting flexibility for applications replacing existing devices.

Webinar: Introducing the SEL-787Z High-Impedance Differential Relay—Features and Settings

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SEL unveils printed circuit board factory in Moscow

SEL Unveils New Printed Circuit Board Factory

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Solving Line Protection Challenges with Transient-based Relays


Solving Line Protection Challenges With Transient-Based Relays

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Edmund Schweitzer’s microprocessor-based device made power grids safer and more reliable

The Relay That Changed the Power Industry

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Direct-replacement assemblies (DRAs) are complete, preassembled retrofit kits. Join us in this live webinar on June 14, 2023, for an overview of DRAs and the benefits they offer for protection retrofit projects at any scale, including how they save time, save money, and simplify relay installation.

Webinar: The Fastest and Easiest Way to Modernize Legacy Relays

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SEL recently released a 3U form factor for the versatile and rugged SEL-3350 computing platform.

SEL-3350 3U Joins the SEL Automation Family

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EMS Now highlights the SEL decision to build its own PCB operation, the opportunities this new capability provides, and the lessons learned so far.

EMS Now: Interview With Jessi Hall and John Hendrickson on Vertical Integration of PCB Fabrication

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Join us in this live webinar on May 10, 2023, to learn how the SEL Real-Time Automation Controller (RTAC) platform and its Grid Connect library are applied to provide the visualization, local control, and protocol conversion needed to manage DERs.

Webinar: Managing DERs With RTAC Grid Connect

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New wildfire mitigation solution cuts power to broken electric lines before they hit the ground

New Wildfire Mitigation Solution Cuts Power to Broken Electric Lines Before They Hit the Ground

Dr. Ed Schweitzer talks about free enterprise and growth at local luncheon

Dr. Ed Schweitzer Talks About Free Enterprise and Growth at Local Chamber Meeting

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SEL Senior Director of Vertical Integration Jessi Hall was named a 2023 Women MAKE Awards

SEL Senior Director of Vertical Integration Honored by National Association of Manufacturers

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SEL will officially begin fabricating printed circuit boards in its new, state-of-the-art facility in Moscow, Idaho, next week.

Production Begins at the $100M SEL Printed Circuit Board Facility

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SEL recently expanded its operational technology (OT) software-defined networking (SDN) switch portfolio with the introduction of the SEL-2741, a premium OT SDN Ethernet switch.

New OT SDN Switch Increases Speed, Port Count

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Process bus communications systems must maintain high availability for analog-to-digital data streams and control signals from protective relays. A webinar on February 22, 2023, will discuss recent innovations in IEC 61850-compliant digital secondary system devices that allow increased availability and reliability in process bus applications.

Webinar: Innovation in IEC 61850 Digital Secondary Systems

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The SEL-2664S Stator Ground Protection Relay is a robust option for generator stator ground protection. The relay uses neutral-overvoltage-based protection and multisine frequency injection to protect 100 percent of the stator winding, even when the generator is at a standstill.

Secure and Reliable Stator Ground Protection, 100 Percent of the Time

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US-based Curtiss-Wright Corporation and Schweitzer Engineering Laboratories (SEL) have signed a teaming agreement whereby Curtiss-Wright will serve as a channel to market SEL’s digital protective relays and engineering services for the global commercial nuclear market.

Curtiss-Wright Signs Agreement With Schweitzer Engineering Laboratories

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The SEL-5056 Software-Defined Network Flow Controller optimizes software-defined networking (SDN) network configuration and management for critical infrastructure. Join us for a webinar on January 25, 2023, to learn about the File Import application recently added to SEL-5056 version 2.12.

Webinar: Automate SDN Configuration With RTAC and IEC 61850 Files

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Join us on Wednesday, January 11, 2023, to learn about SEL’s solution for software-based password management on the SEL Blueframe platform.

Software-Based Password Rotation With DMA Credential Management

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Join us on Wednesday, December 14 as SEL technical experts discuss the future of meter data analysis and reporting software with SEL. This webinar will discuss a phased approach to transitioning from PC-based <span class="selism--small-caps">acSELerator</span> Meter Reports SEL-5630 Software to server-based SEL-5705 Synchrowave Reports.

Upcoming Webinar: Moving Meter Data Analysis and Reporting Into the Future

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SEL has created an online hub dedicated to advancing conversations around the cybersecurity of industrial control systems (ICSs) and operational technology (OT). The Cybersecurity Center explores ideas related to improving the inherent safety of critical infrastructure and establishing more robust cybersecurity fundamentals.

SEL Cybersecurity Center Focuses on Advancing ICS/OT Security Discussion

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SEL has added broken conductor detection to the SEL-411L Advanced Line Differential Protection, Automation, and Control System.

Broken Conductor Detection Added to SEL-411L

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SEL's Adina Bielenberg among the 50 honorees celebrated at Idaho Business Reviews' 2022 Women of the Year gala.

Long-Time SEL Employee Celebrated as Idaho Women of the Year Honoree

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SEL is the 22nd largest employee-owned company in the United States, according to the National Center for Employee Ownership (NCEO).

SEL Named One of the Nation’s Largest Employee-Owned Companies

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Join SEL executive leadership and product developers in person at the SEL Technical Seminar at the 2022 Western Protective Relay Conference (WPRC), the first in-person technical seminar since 2019. The seminar agenda will include solutions designed to address key challenges facing the electric power industry today.

Register to Attend the SEL Technical Seminar at the 2022 Western Protective Relay Conference in Person

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Join us for a webinar on September 14, 2022, where presenters from SEL and San Diego Gas & Electric (SDG&E) will discuss a falling conductor mitigation solution designed specifically for distribution circuits. Through case studies and real-world examples, you’ll explore how these algorithms detect, isolate and locate falling conductors while providing capabilities that improve situational awareness.

Webinar: Falling Conductor Mitigation for Distribution Systems

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SEL is now offering no-cost, personalized demonstrations of SEL’s next-generation fault location, isolation and service restoration (FLISR) solution. The FLISR software package is part of the Distribution Management System (DMS) suite on the SEL Blueframe platform. Participants in the demonstration will learn about the software package and have their questions answered by an SEL technical expert.

Sign Up for a No-Cost, Virtual FLISR Demonstration

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Join our webinar on August 24, 2022, to learn about broken conductor detection on transmission and subtransmission lines.

Webinar: Detecting and Locating a Broken Conductor Before It Converts Into a Fault

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Dr. Edmund O. Schweitzer III opposes the CHIPS Act

Chipping Away at Our Economic and Political Freedom

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SEL Names New VP of Engineering Services

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SEL is offering no-cost, personalized demonstrations of SEL-5702 Synchrowave Operations software. Participants will learn about the software’s capabilities and have their questions answered by an SEL technical expert.

Enroll in a Synchrowave Operations Demonstration

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Synchrowave software improves wide-area situational awareness for operations environments. Through high-resolution time-series data, SEL-5702 Synchrowave Operations Software offers greater system visibility and insights that enhance the decision-making abilities of grid operators and engineers. Join us for a webinar on June 22, 2022, to learn about new features that expand the benefits Synchrowave Operations offers to users.

Webinar: Preventing PT Failures and Locating Generation Loss With Synchrowave Operations

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SEL recently released a next-generation solution for fault location, isolation, and service restoration (FLISR). The first software package to release in the Distribution Management System (DMS) application suite on SEL Blueframe, FLISR redefines simplicity and reliability in distribution automation. An intuitive user interface and a modern display offer unparalleled transparency and ease of use for minimizing customer outages, improving reliability metrics, and providing fault detection and system restoration within seconds.

SEL’s Next-Generation FLISR Solution

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Join us for a webinar on June 8, 2022, to learn about SEL’s next-generation software solution for automating fault location, isolation, and service restoration (FLISR). This webinar will discuss and demonstrate the recently released Distribution Management System (DMS) application suite on the SEL Blueframe software platform.

Webinar: Introducing Next-Generation FLISR Software on Blueframe

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SEL president receives honorary doctorate degree from Purdue University

SEL President Receives Honorary Doctorate Degree From Purdue University

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Aspects of the modern power system, such as the rise of distributed generation, have led to an increase in undesirable harmonic distortion. IEEE 519-2014 compliance can help utilities maximize power system performance and efficiency.

Webinar: Monitoring Harmonics With IEEE 519 Compliance Reporting

SEL to utilize Atotech’s Uniplate® equipment at SEL’s new PCB manufacturing facility in Idaho, USA

Atotech and SEL Announce Business Partnership

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Managing a large fleet of devices across multiple substations can be difficult with limited access from a central location. The new Direct Resource Access tool on the SEL Blueframe application platform for utility and industrial systems makes fleet management simple and secure.

Webinar: Secure Engineering Access and Resource Management Tools on Blueframe

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$20 million gift from Schweitzers, SEL among largest in university history.

Coming to WSU—Schweitzer Engineering Hall

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Schweitzer Engineering Laboratories (SEL) has released a substantial update to its SEL Grid Configurator software, with visual and functional enhancements that will make it easier for users to configure and review device settings.

SEL Releases Enhancements to Grid Configurator

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Join us for a webinar on April 13, 2022, that will discuss how the SEL-487E Transformer Protection Relay can simultaneously protect lines, transformers and feeders in a centralized protection and control (CPC) scheme using newly added distance elements.

Webinar: Applying the SEL-487E for Centralized Protection and Control

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SEL has launched a no-cost virtual pilot program for its operational technology (OT) software-defined networking (SDN) solution.

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