How to Use overvoltage in a Sentence

overvoltage

noun

• Some power plants on contract to provide reactive power control, which might have corrected the overvoltage, failed to do so, and in one case added rather than absorbed reactive power.
  — IEEE Spectrum, 16 June 2025
• The powerwall already had a battery management system to monitor the voltages — the same kind of BMS found in commercial battery packs, keeping watch over cell-level voltage to prevent overvoltage conditions that can lead to thermal runaway.
  — Ryan Brennan march 6, Kansas City Star, 6 Mar. 2026
• According to the company, its grid-forming control strategy can maintain stable operation across an SCR range of 1 to 40, while also helping mitigate transient overvoltage.
  — Georgina Jedikovska, Interesting Engineering, 17 Sep. 2026
• The Ultra-Rise Qi2 15W 3-in-1 wireless charging station is also equipped with safety features like temperature control and can prevent overheating, overvoltage, short circuiting and overcurrent.
  — Mark Sparrow, Forbes.com, 19 Sep. 2025
• The utility’s moves may eventually have a national or even global impact, as the IEEE and UL, which set international technical standards for inverters, are now preparing to include overvoltage protections in their smart-inverter standards.
  — Benjamin Kroposki, IEEE Spectrum, 20 Oct. 2016