TEC's Poles Test New Treatment and New Hardware
Tri-County Electric Cooperative's (TEC, Rushford, Minnesota, U.S.) installed 58 technologically advanced wood poles in a demonstration line in South Carolina....
Spotlight on Spraying
Utility vegetation managers continuously face multiple objectives, including product performance, worker safety, controlling the time and money spent,...
Tennessee Valley Electric Co-op Reaps Savings with Vegetation Management
An integrated vegetation management (IVM) program can save money in the short term, according to Charles Bevis, general manager for the Tennessee Valley...
Fiberglass Trumps Wood
Ask Ron Runion, design/build group leader at Tucson Electric Power Co. (TEP, Tucson, Arizona, U.S.), to name his top three priorities and he'll tell you,...
PacifiCorp Gets a Grip On Galloping Conductors
The most dramatic illustration of conductor movement is the violent shift of conductors during galloping. In this scenario, conductors in one span achieve...
Asplundh Evolutionizes Vegetation Management
Looking back, when I was first exposed to our industry as a climber and foreman in the late 1950s, it was an industry that had little or no training....
Neutral-Point Grounding For Distribution Networks
Utilities have several options when they need to ground or earth the neutral point of their distribution network that largely depend on the characteristics...
Pepco Demonstrates a Program that Works
The vegetation management program at Pepco (Washington, D.C.) began with a simple routine operation of scheduled maintenance for trimming trees and clearing...
Siemens Brings Electricity to a Hundred Villages in Central Africa
The Siemens Power Transmission and Distribution Group (PTD, Erlangen, Germany) is electrifying a hundred villages in Gabon, Africa, in a 20 million euro...
Raptors: Test to Protect
The electrocution of raptors and large perching birds is a global hazard resulting from overhead distribution construction. This is especially true in...
United States: Kansas City Encounters Worst Natural Disaster of New Century
There is no doubt that the days between Jan. 29 and Feb. 8, 2002, will remain in the minds of the residents of the Kansas City, Missouri metropolitan...
Utility Retrofits Towers To Increase System Voltage
Recently, Spain's Galicia Region has experienced spectacular growth in power-generation capacity, particularly in the sector of wind generation. As a...
Vegetation Management
In its beginning, vegetation management focused on the tree trimming needed to construct a new overhead line or to maintain line clearances. Nowadays,...
Russian Rehabilitation Project Proves Successful
Russia is a massive country spannig nine time zones from east to west. Extensive electrification programs conducted in the 1950s, 1960s and 1970s supplied...
Slovenia Engages in Cover-up
Overhead lines constructed with covered conductors in lieu of bare conductors began in Finland in the 1970s. Covered conductors for medium-voltage (MV)...
Vintage Towers: Working it Hot
Competitive pressures combined with regulatory constraints limited new line construction at Public Service Electric and Gas (PSE&G), while demand growth...
Grounding Essentials
Safety in line construction continues to be a big concern. No lineworker knowingly would contact an energized line without the proper safety equipment....
