December 1, 2007
Global Viewpoint
Scrap the Juggling Act
Feel Like you're Juggling too Many Balls and it is Just a Matter of Time Until you Drop that one Ball that could Trash your Career? And then your boss...
Features
First U.S. Installation of New ACSS Conductor
The strong industry-wide demand for transmission infrastructure with high-capacity lines is well documented, and has prompted manufacturers to develop...
Rocky Mountain Power's New Light on Flicker
Has your Utility ever been Challenged by an Industrial Customer when Measuring Voltage Fluctuation and Light Flicker? How did your utility handle it?...
SCE Pilots the Next Level of Grid Protection
Deregulation Created a Vibrant Marketplace for Generation Over the Past Decade, which has led to a proliferation of new participants in the electricity...
Grid Management Delivers Improved Results
The high development costs of power systems combined with customer demand for high quality make the maintenance management of the power transmission grid...
Automated Fault Locating Raises the Reliability Bar
When Following Faults, System Operators Face Special Challenges in Order to Restore System Operation Safely and Expeditiously. To make the best-possible...
Judges Play Important Role in Lineman's Rodeo
Judging by the Looks of Things, the 24th Annual International Lineman's Rodeo was a Big Success. Crowds of people cheered as 212 journeyman teams and...
Business Developments
Henkels & McCoy Commits to H&M NetWorks' Line of Business
Henkels & McCoy has invested in a newly constructed 15,000-sq ft (1394-sq m) headquarters in Plymouth Meeting, Pennsylvania, U.S., for its H&M NetWorks...
ComEd Improves Service Requests
ComEd invested heavily in 2007 to improve service to customers seeking a new electrical connection or a change in service, and homebuilders, commercial...
LETTER TO THE EDITOR
Your editorial What Color Are Your Stripes? [September 2007] had me cracking up, and I just had to write. I've been with a utility long enough (33 years)...
Siemens Selects WorleyParsons for Trans Bay Cable Project
Siemens Power Transmission & Distribution Inc. has contracted with Worley-Parsons to provide engineering services for the high-voltage direct current...
EFACEC to Build Transformer Plant in Georgia
Group EFACEC, a supplier of automation systems and energy infrastructure solutions, will build a US$100 million transformer manufacturing facility in...
SPP RTO Approves Critical Expansion
The Southwest Power Pool's (SPP) Board of Directors approved ITC Great Plains' proposed 180-mile (290-km) transmission project, known as the Kansas V-plan...
Technology Updates
Utility Deploys Advanced Metering Infrastructure System in Four Months
In an industry where advanced metering infrastructure (AMI) deployments can take as long as two years, the ability to successfully implement a full system...
Holyoke Gas & Electric Gains Flexibility and Security for Utility Operations
Holyoke Gas & Electric (HG Holyoke, Massachusetts, U.S.) is successfully blending the past with modern-day networking technology as the needs and uses...
Siemens Connects Majorca to the Grid
Red Elctrica de Espana (REE) has contracted Siemens Power Transmission and Distribution (PTD; Erlangen, Germany) to deliver two converter stations for...
AREVA to Supply PACiS to Terna S.p.A
AREVA's T&D division has entered into an agreement with Terna S.p.A to supply substation automation systems (PACiS) that comply with the new International...
Characters with Character
Renaissance Man
Either Write Something Worth Reading or do Something Worth Writing were words of advice spoken by U.S. founding father Benjamin Franklin. George Loehr,...
Products & Services
PRODUCTS & Services
Power Cable Fault Locator Megger introduces the new PFL20M, a safe, efficient and easy-to-use power cable fault locator. The PFL20M delivers an energy...
Straight Talk
Arc Flash Methodology
It's time for a new approach to a difficult issue when working near open-air substations, switchyards and transmission and distribution lines. For more...
Electric Utility Operations
Steve McCauley
Kansas City Power & Light Born and raised in Kansas City, Missouri. Has a younger brother, Lance, who works at Ford on the assembly line. Met his wife,...
Make Safety a Value, Not an Afterthought
Before the sun comes up in Cresthill, Illinois, Henkels & McCoy field crews meet to discuss safety issues related to directional boring and trenching....
When Wearing Cover-Ups, One Size Does Not Fit All
Rubber gloving and energized work has become the standard rather than the exception in recent years among overhead distribution linemen. At San Diego...
A Midwest Perspective on Cover-ups
At Prairie Electric Cooperative (Norton, Kansas), our rubber goods, gloves, sleeves, blankets or as we call them get used every day. Every truck carries...
