Dallas Based Inventor Awarded U.S. Patent for Advanced Transmission Technology
Leah Parker
November 14, 2006
Dallas, Texas. Dallas based Inventor has been awarded a U.S. Patent that may be used to help address the nation’s electrical reliability. His patent, U.S. Patent No. 7,132,950 entitled: Power Management Method and System describes a robust integration of measurement and analysis using inductive couplers, geospatial location technology and signals measurement technology that far exceeds the standards used by electric companies in the U.S. and abroad.
Stewart’s patent may be a technology that has arrived at the right place at the right time. As most of our nation’s focus is on reducing our dependence on foreign oil and gas (including natural gas for heating in the winter months) technology that can provide our electrical industry with tools for measurement and reliability to save money for consumers and providers alike; is being actively sought after. The energy bill recently passed by Congress and signed into law by President Bush provides for incentives to energy companies that spend monies to acquire advanced transmission technology.
Stewart currently has patents pending in the European Union, Canada, Asia, Australia, and has been awarded a South African Patent on the same technology. His current effort embodies 20 claims and incorporates unique component and systems design that may make the technology exciting for other niche market applications beyond electric grid advanced transmission technology into electric grid reliability and advance fault detection and potentially prediction or “Early warning”.
Numerous utility related organizations and academic institutions have agreed that our electric power demand and consumption is growing beyond the capabilities of the resources that we rely on today. The debate within the industry has been raging for the last few years and many questions are currently on the table.
How long have we got? Where do we start to reinforce our power assets? How much will it cost and who is going to pay? These questions are not just philosophical; rather they represent an urgent call to our best and brightest to pave the way ahead.
After reviewing Stewart’s newest U.S. Patent; Keith Miller, an 18 year veteran of Commonwealth Edison stated: “As an operator for 8 years in both fossil and nuclear stations for the third largest electric utility in the world it was always an ongoing struggle to keep the power-producing units online, both reactors and coal fired units. Sometimes this was related to balancing the power grids.” Miller continued by saying, “I have reviewed this latest invention to be used to improve electrical infrastructures, both here and abroad, and believe that this system and method could dramatically address many of the lingering problems that Utilities and power producers face in our new high demand world." “My experience at ComEd would have been greatly benefited with these types of IT (information technology) tools and applications." Miller concluded with, “If we would have had this technology at both Kincaid power plant or Byron Power Plant there would have been far less outages, and many other problems would have been prevented.”
Stewart’s patent may be a technology that has arrived at the right place at the right time. As most of our nation’s focus is on reducing our dependence on foreign oil and gas (including natural gas for heating in the winter months) technology that can provide our electrical industry with tools for measurement and reliability to save money for consumers and providers alike; is being actively sought after. The energy bill recently passed by Congress and signed into law by President Bush provides for incentives to energy companies that spend monies to acquire advanced transmission technology.
Stewart currently has patents pending in the European Union, Canada, Asia, Australia, and has been awarded a South African Patent on the same technology. His current effort embodies 20 claims and incorporates unique component and systems design that may make the technology exciting for other niche market applications beyond electric grid advanced transmission technology into electric grid reliability and advance fault detection and potentially prediction or “Early warning”.
Numerous utility related organizations and academic institutions have agreed that our electric power demand and consumption is growing beyond the capabilities of the resources that we rely on today. The debate within the industry has been raging for the last few years and many questions are currently on the table.
How long have we got? Where do we start to reinforce our power assets? How much will it cost and who is going to pay? These questions are not just philosophical; rather they represent an urgent call to our best and brightest to pave the way ahead.
After reviewing Stewart’s newest U.S. Patent; Keith Miller, an 18 year veteran of Commonwealth Edison stated: “As an operator for 8 years in both fossil and nuclear stations for the third largest electric utility in the world it was always an ongoing struggle to keep the power-producing units online, both reactors and coal fired units. Sometimes this was related to balancing the power grids.” Miller continued by saying, “I have reviewed this latest invention to be used to improve electrical infrastructures, both here and abroad, and believe that this system and method could dramatically address many of the lingering problems that Utilities and power producers face in our new high demand world." “My experience at ComEd would have been greatly benefited with these types of IT (information technology) tools and applications." Miller concluded with, “If we would have had this technology at both Kincaid power plant or Byron Power Plant there would have been far less outages, and many other problems would have been prevented.”
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