Ralph Bowersock
Born July 23, 1949, in Worthington, Indiana. Married to Patty for 26 years and has five children: Ralph Bowersock, Jr., Sherry Mayden, Michalina Peterson,...
Reduce Hazards When Working in Ice Storms
Ice-covered tree limbs crashed onto power lines in the Midwest in early December 2007, leaving a million homes and businesses without power, according...
Inductive-Mode Locating Works at Cellular Site
Experts estimate that there are as many as 150,000 cellular sites in the continental United States. Each is equipped with special transmitters, antennas...
Lineman Preserves History of the Trade
Linemen flipped through a book of antique photographs and examined tools from the yesteryear at the 2007 International Lineman's Rodeo Expo in October....
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,...
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...
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...
Botswana Expanding Distribution System
Botswana Power Corp. has contracted SWECO (Stockholm, Sweden) to assist in the large-scale expansion of the country’s power distribution system. ...
Power Supply in Bangladesh Almost Back to Normal After Cyclone
Power supply was almost back to normal across Bangladesh Saturday after a prolonged blackout from power stations tripping under the impact of a severe cyclone last week, private news agency UNB reported...
Paper: Distribution Line Loss Management Offers Significant Savings for Electric Cooperatives
Electric cooperatives can save millions of dollars annually by managing distribution line losses, according to a white paper released by the Market Development Group. ...
How to Train Future Linemen in Safe Work Practices
At the Salt River Project's climbing school, students earn their place in the sun not only by successfully climbing to the top, but also by safely finding...
Balancing Maintenance and Construction
CPS Energy (San Antonio, Texas) serves a growing population of more than 673,000 electric customers. This growth requires our linemen to wear many hats...
Puget Sound Energy Will Spend $12 Million on Vegetation Management in 2007
Puget Sound Energy is spending more than $12 million this year, up from $10 million last year, on vegetation management programs ...
ENERGEX Increases Network Performance with OSM Installations
Beginning in the 2003/04 financial year, ENERGEX (Brisbane, Queensland, Australia) installed approximately 50 NOJA Power OSM automatic circuit reclosers...
Campus Distribution Makes the Grade
The Need for a Reliable, Robust Electrical System to Meet the Vast Requirements of a Major University is Paramount. The University of California, Santa...
Seven Ways to Protect Crews from a Fall
In my 24 years with Kansas City Power & Light (KCP Kansas City, Missouri), we haven't had any accidents with our fall-protection work, which says a lot...
Cable-Splicing Certification
Power blackouts and facility downtime are intolerable in today's economy where electricity is a necessity. The utility power-distribution system is exceedingly...
DTE Energy, EDD Collaborate with Others to Test New Power-Delivery Technologies
Already under way, the first part of an initiative to study and test the feasibility of integrating new power-delivery technologies into the power distribution...
Regulators Approve Storm Cost Recovery Plan for Cleco
The Louisiana Public Service Commission has approved a plan that allows Cleco Power LLC to recover $159 million in storm costs associated with restoration of service in the aftermath of hurricanes Katrina and Rita. ...
Progress Energy Readies for Possibility of Storm Impacts From Gabrielle
Progress Energy Carolinas is tracking the progress of a yet-unnamed weather system over the Atlantic Ocean that could turn into Tropical Storm or Hurricane Gabrielle by the weekend. ...
Linemen in the Air
A FIRE BURNED THROUGH THE MOUNTAINOUS AREA EAST OF EUREKA, CALIFORNIA, and destroyed a wood-pole line. Pacific Gas & Electric (San Francisco, California,...
Safety From the Heart
Having Witnessed or experienced an on-the-job accident, whether a near miss or a fatality, forces linemen to move the issue of safety from their heads...
TDMMA Conference
The Transmission & Distribution Maintenance Management Association (TDMMA) will be holding its 2007 Conference on Oct. 29-Nov. 1 in Kansas City, Missouri,...
Mini-Digger Derricks Ease the Workload
Kansas City Power & Light (KCP Kansas City, Missouri) has been upgrading its system to meet the increased demand for capacity and to ensure maximum reliability....
