Overhead Distribution
Oncor Sends Crews to the Gulf Coast
Oncor will sent work crews to Louisiana this morning to support Central Louisiana Electric Company (CLECO) in its restoration effort. ...
Entergy Arkansas Crews Head to Louisiana Gulf Coast
Entergy Arkansas, Inc. crews are now on their way to Louisiana to restore power following the impact of Hurricane Gustav on the Louisiana Gulf Coast Monday. ...
CEA's President's Award of Excellence Honors Best Performing Utilities in Employee Safety
For more than 30 years, the Canadian Electricity Association (CEA) has tracked the employee safety record of its member utilities. ...
University of Florida Helps Florida Utilities Assess Impact of Wind on Power Lines
With Tropical Storm Fay bearing down on Florida, thousands of residents are likely to be faced with power outages that are both disruptive and costly. ...
KCP&L Revisits Capacity Planning
Metropolitan Kansas City Has Enjoyed Consistent Growth in New Customer Loads over the years, highlighted most recently by a resurgence of the downtown...
Siemens to Expand Power-Supply System in Sri Lanka
The Ceylon Electricity Board has placed an order with Siemens Energy to modernize and expand the medium-voltage distribution network of Sri Lanka's capital...
USDA Awards Co-ops $1.4 Billion
The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) Rural Development will fund US$1.4 billion in loans to build new distribution lines and make system improvements...
Entergy Changes Its Safety Culture
Nothing is more important to Entergy than the safety of all personnel. If a project can't be performed safely, then the New Orleans, Louisiana-based utility...
Quanta Linemen Stay Safe While Working Live Lines
Robust customer demand and a growing expectation for uninterrupted service has made live-line barehand work a common practice in the utility industry....
Linemen Gear Up for 25th Annual Rodeo
The International Lineman's Rodeo has been A Platform for Linemen to show off their technical craft and skill since 1984, and this year 3500 attendees...
OSHA Electrical Partnership Identifies Best Practices to Increase Lineman Safety
Four years ago, the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) partnered with six electrical contractors, one union and two industry organizations...
Cleco Power Sends Help to Texas
Cleco Power sent 42 workers to San Benito, Texas, to assist with power restorations after Hurricane Dolly hit south Texas last Wednesday...
Hurricane Dolly Hits Texas; AEP Texas Readies for Restoration
Hurricane Dolly's leading edge attacked the Gulf Coast today near the Texas-Mexico border with heavy rain and powerful winds...
Delhi International Airport Commissions $77-Million Power Order
ABB has won an order of $77-million for design, supply, installation, testing and commissioning of electrical products and systems for the new Terminal 3 (T3) building at Indira Gandhi International Airport in Delhi, India. ...
USDA Awards $1.4 Billion in Electric Loans
Agriculture Secretary Ed Schafer has announced $1.4 billion in loans to build new distribution lines and make system improvements for more than 73,413 new customers and finance the construction and repair of 6,206 miles of distribution line. ...
TVA Linemen Install Poles in Hard-to-Reach Areas
Back in the 1920s, linemen trekked into the North Carolina mountains by mule to construct a transmission line. Eighty years later, rust was corroding...
Offshore Wind Farm off Suffolk Coast to Power 415,000 Homes
Greater Gabbard Offshore Winds Ltd. (Surrey, England) was established as a joint-venture partnership between Airtricity and Fluor to develop what will...
Transformer Package Saves Installation Time
Linemen for North West Rural Electric Cooperative (REC) of Orange City, Iowa, no longer spend hours installing voltage transformers (VTs) on a utility...
ComEd Brings 345 kV Downtown
Chicago Continues to Live Up to the Century-Old Advice of Early City Planner Daniel Burnham: Make No Small Plans. However, unlike some of the city's more...
Severe Storm Hits Oncor’s Service Area
A major storm moved through Oncor’s service area yesterday, leaving downed power lines and power outages in its wake. ...
Eliminating Tree-Caused Outages
In an effort to eliminate less-predictable outages, PG&E has embarked on a five-year journey, with annual milestones, to reduce the vegetation-related...
NIPSCO Contracts with ArborMetrics
ArborMetrics Solutions Inc. (Hendersonville, North Carolina, U.S.) was recently selected to provide both transmission and distribution vegetation management...
Progress Amid Chaos
The Iraq Ministry of Electricity Administered the Country's Generation, transmission and distribution before the 1980s by building all major projects...
PG&E Redesigns The Cost Equation
We are Taking a Very Good Program to a Completely Different Level. You can't get where we're going until you've been where we've been. That statement...
U.S. DOE to Fund Zero-Energy District
The U.S. Department of Energy has awarded the city of Fort Collins, Colorado, and a diverse group of partners a US$6.3 million grant to fund the first...
