Abstract :
As director of innovation at KEMA Laboratories, in Arnhem, Netherlands, René Smeets is no stranger to power. The lab tests circuit breakers and transformers built for ultrahigh-voltage (UHV) transmission systems, ensuring that these components can control the titanic current flows unleashed during short circuits. KEMA\´s strategies to mimic those extreme conditions in the lab, which Smeets describes in the article "Safeguarding the Supergrid," give him an intimate understanding of how the components will perform when they\´re deployed in vast, nation-spanning transmission networks.
