Energy Talks

The next OMICRON Diagnostic Forum takes place on March 24-25, 2021. This event is scheduled every 2 years, and has become an OMICRON tradition of sharing knowledge, experiences and best cases with industry peers about diagnostic testing on power system equipment. In this episode, OMICRON organizers Verena Rein and Tobias Schmutzhard describe how this year’s event will be presented completely onlin...

In this episode, we speak with Oliver Janke, Training Manager at OMICRON Academy. He discusses how OMICRON Academy has been developing webinars and online training courses on power system testing topics to make them just as interactive as traditional classroom trainings, and even more accessible to participants worldwide.

OMICRON customer Gustav Lundqvist is the founder and owner of Kraftdiagnos, a measurement service provider based in northern Sweden. Gustav has created a unique lifestyle for himself – he has found a way to combine his love of the outdoors with performing grounding and other diagnostic measurements for electrical utilities at remote sites all over the country.

Rotating electrical machines are critical for power generation and running critical industrial processes. However, machine reliability can be compromised over time due to operational stresses and aging. In this episode, Fabian Öttl, OMICRON’s rotating machines testing expert, identifies essential electrical tests that should be regularly performed to assess machine condition and detect potential f...

Partial discharge (PD) is a very reliable indicator of potential failure-causing faults in electrical equipment insulation. Regular PD testing and PD monitoring are used to reliably assess insulation condition throughout equipment lifetime. In this episode, two of OMICRON’s PD experts – Patrick Zander and Samuel Scheller – describe the differences between PD testing and monitoring, when they are u...