Motor Generator Condition Assessment

20/09/2026

https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/condition-monitoring-large-turbo-generators-irfan-akhtar--l7xyf

By Irfan Akhtar Condition monitoring of a large turbo generator is fundamentally different from routine equipment surveillance. The objective is not simply to confirm that individual temperatures, pressures, currents and vibration levels remain below alarm settings.

17/09/2026

A utility-scale battery energy storage system is not commissioned when the PCS first exports megawatts. It is commissioned when the owner can demonstrate, with time-synchronised records and an auditable configuration baseline, that the installed plant is safe to energise, behaves as specified in eve

02/08/2026

https://www.linkedin.com/posts/irfanakhtar_powerandenergywithirfan-powersystems-electricalengineering-activity-7489760912032215040-xWje?utm_source=share&utm_medium=member_ios&rcm=ACoAAAJQWwsBD0Mfhi8Smp8VD8RNB4Tm-m3VHsU

Thirty Years an Engineer: Learning All Over Again For decades, power system engineers learned to understand the grid through synchronous machines, inertia, fault levels, protection, voltage, frequency and predictable physical behaviour. Then renewables began rewriting the rules. Solar, wind and batt...