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Affinity Energy Celebrates DC BLOX’s International Subsea Cable Landing Station in Myrtle Beach, S.C.

The 15 MW cable landing station and dark fiber connect subsea cables landing in Myrtle Beach to Atlanta

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7 Steps to Protect Your Business from Cybersecurity Threats

Reduce your risk for attack with these simple steps

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Affinity Energy Celebrates 20 years of Excellence

Charlotte, NC control systems integrator celebrates milestone.

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Affinity Energy Celebrates DC BLOX’s Tier III Certified Greenville Data Center

Designed to Uptime Institute’s Tier III standards, the data center is the first-of-its-kind multi-tenant data center located in South Carolina.

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Is it Time to Upgrade Your SCADA System?

How do you know when its time to upgrade or replace your SCADA system?

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Affinity Energy Joins UNCC EPIC Affiliates Program

Affinity Energy is pleased to announce that the company has joined UNCC's The William States Lee College of Engineering EPIC Affiliates Program as a KiloWatt supporter.

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Affinity Energy Receives Sapphire Sales Award

CHARLOTTE, NC, September 16, 2021 — Affinity Energy is pleased to announce that VTScada by Trihedral has recognized the company as a Sapphire Sales Award recipient at their annual Summerfest on August 31.

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Support Plans Aren’t Warranties, and Go Beyond Software Maintenance

A good support plan ensures customers meet their EPMS and SCADA system goals for years after installation and commissioning.

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Automatic Generator Starter Battery Testing

Does the NFPA 110 Support Automatic Generator Starter Battery Testing?

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5 Key Things to Understand About SCADA Reporting

Stop exporting data manually, start automating reports for better visibility.

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Choosing a Power Monitoring System Over SCADA

Skip the difficult customization of SCADA or BA and proactively find facility inefficiencies with a power monitoring system.

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What Owners Should Know About High Availability and Redundancy

Underspecify redundancy and you might end up paying for it later.

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3 Reasons to Upgrade SCADA Software

Upgrading will increase interactivity, planning, and communication, and improve overall ROI.

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3 Reasons Why, and How to Automate Healthcare Testing

Want to reduce human error, simplify compliance reporting, and spot premature failure?

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Beyond the PLC: Taking a Holistic View of Redundant Architecture

True redundancy extends beyond just the PLC to everything that could affect the controls system.

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Should You Put an Electric Submeter Inside Switchgear?

Choosing convenience over serviceability increases costs over the long term.

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Helping Co-op Utilities Implement Solar

Transmission operator limitations shouldn’t stop you from considering solar.

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Are You Missing NFPA 110 Generator Alarms?

Do you really know if your generator alarms comply with NFPA 110?

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What are Submeters?

The behind-the-scenes hardware that best helps you gain better visibility into your facility’s energy and power? Submeters.

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PV Fleet Security: Layers of Separation

Protect your fleet from hacking or intrusion with these 7 scenarios.

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Power Quality Made Simpler

Using a management process helps users realize where “dirty” power is coming from and help mitigate the effects for a more energy-efficient company.

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Mitigating Power Quality Issues in Industrial Facilities

Designing facilities with power quality in mind.

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Detecting Power Quality Events in Industrial Facilities

Using PME to detect, measure, and maintain power quality.

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Battery Storage and Solar: More Efficient When Controlled Together

Solar can finally operate in all 4 quadrants of the PQ curve.

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Cloud-Based EPMS Bridges the Gap Between Building Automation and Traditional EPMS

Who are the best candidates for application-specific EPMS over the cloud?

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Energy Cost Allocation for Industrial Facilities

Keep cost centers accountable and measure energy conservation goals with cost allocation.

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SCADA - Just Because You Can, Doesn't Mean You Should

“Just Because You Can, Doesn’t Mean You Should” and Other SCADA Implementation Pet Peeves

Overspecifying or underspecifying device points needlessly drives up SCADA implementation costs.

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5 Meter Installation Nuances When Monitoring Utility-Scale Solar kW

It’s time to start paying attention to solar meter selection.

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4 Major Power Quality Issues in Industrial Facilities

For having such a large potential to seriously devastate industrial infrastructure, power quality events are largely untracked.

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