Lineman Life - Sep 1st, 2023
 
 
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Celebrating the Line Trade
 
Top of the Line
Lineworkers are coming together to restore power following the Florida hurricane.
In the News
FPL is conducting damage assessments and continues to restore power safely and as quickly as possible.
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Lineworkers restored power to more than 20,500 customers following the Category 2 storm.
The utility is coordinating with federal, state and county response teams on restoration efforts.
Safety and Training
The industry at large is seeing a revolution in how it repairs power lines—the kind of rapid progress that hasn’t happened since the immediate aftermath of the Northeast Blackout.
Listen to Seán Adam, vice president of market strategy and innovation for AFL, discuss Fiber Through the Grid technology in this T&D Talk podcast episode.
Tools and Techniques
The aerial service provider receives a first-in-the-nation authorization to commercially operate its drones BVLOS over linear infrastructure nationwide.
The 20 MW energy storage project enables renewable energy growth and relieves transmission constraints.
Life on the Line
MD Kabir works in the heart of New York City as a lineworker for E-J Electric and IBEW Local 3.
For our August 2023 Line Life Podcast episode, we are highlighting Light Up Navajo, a humanitarian project that launched in 2019.