Electric Reliability and Outages
AFTER SAFETY, ELECTRIC RELIABILITY IS THE MOST IMPORTANT RESPONSIBILITY for line cleara-times, “tree caused” can become a catchall for difficult-to-identify outages.
WHAT DATA TO COLLECT
If the utility does not already have records on outages, a recent outage study by Davey Resource Group found that useful data include:
IT IS HARD TO KEEP YOUR HEAD WHEN EVERY-ONE ELSE IS LOSING THEIRS. Some are better at keeping their wits about them than others. When I headed south to cover the Gulf rebuild after Hurricane Katrina, I saw plenty of chaos and plenty of people losing their heads. The devastation was so immense and the needs so great that few could cope. I saw tempers flare, but mostly I ran into dazed individuals looking lost, not knowing where to turn. Not so with our linemen.
Every lineman I talked with had worked storms befo
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