October 26, 2015 – HD Electric Company has released its VarCom 2600 communicating capacitor controls. These provide remote control from central Volt-VAR, CVR, DMS or SCADA systems, according to HD Electric, and can control capacitor banks using combinations of ambient temperature, time, voltage, current and kVAR.

VarCom controls have a field-friendly control panel and work with any DNP 3.0 application, HD says. Communications can be provided from the HDE factory or added to any VarCom control in the field.