Thinking Big in the Neighborhood
ARCHIE PUGH SENT ME AN E-MAIL THAT HAD A BIT OF AN EDGE. Archie, an engineer with American Electric Power (AEP), wanted to know why I hadn't contacted...
Colorado-Wyoming Transmission Development Inquiry Gains Momentum
THE WESTERN AREA POWER ADMINISTRATION (Western; Lakewood, Colorado, U.S.) published a solicitation in the November 15 Federal Register requesting statements...
ZAMBIA TANZANIA INTERCONNECTOR
A NEW TRANSMISSION LINE TO INTERCONNECT THE POWER SYSTEMS OF ZAMBIA AND TANZANIA has been under consideration since 1995, when the first feasibility study...
Innovative Design Proves Successful For 345-kV H-frames
In the spring of 2001, Sierra Pacific Power Co. began the design phase of the Falcon Project, a 180-mile-long, 345-kV transmission line that connects...
When Birds and Power Lines Collide
Birds are a major problem for utilities. They collide with overhead structures and conductors, contaminate insulators and equipment, and damage facilities...
KEEPING THE HUMAN PERSPECTIVE
AFTER AN UNPRECEDENTED 14-YEAR SITING AND PERMITTING PROCESS, American Electric Power (AEP) is in the midst of one of our most exciting and ambitious...
Tower Construction Completed for Appalachian Power's 765-kV Project
All of the towers for Appalachian Power's 765-kV project have been erected, making one of the nation's largest power line projects an active wire-pulling...
AIRBORNE SURVEYING AIDS IN VEGETATION MANAGEMENT
FOR THE PAST THREE YEARS, BRITISH COLUMBIA TRANSMISSION CORP. (BCTC) has used light detection and ranging (LIDAR) technology to do aerial surveys of the...
ESKOM UNVEILS EHV ECONOMIC LINE STRUCTURES
SIGNIFICANT ADVANCES have been made in the optimization of suspension structures used to support extra-high-voltage (EHV) transmission lines that employ...
HECO Installs Pole-Mounted Solid Insulation Distribution Transformer
Hawaiian Electric Co. (HECO) is the first utility in the world to install an ABB Solid Insulation Distribution Transformer (SIDT) on a pole. Located in...
NEPCO's Solution to Insulator Contamination in the Desert
In the early morning hours of Nov. 8, 1998, major tripping started to occur on the 400-kV transmission line routed from Aqaba (a port on the Red Sea in...
United States: PUC Approves SDG&E's Otay Mesa Transmission Project
The California Public Utilities Commission (PUC; San Francisco, California) approved the construction of San Diego Gas & Electric Co.'s (SDG San Diego,...
Siemens and Chinese Partner to Set Up Fourth HVDC Transmission Link in China
Siemens Power Transmission and Distribution (PTD; Erlangen, Germany) has received an order from the China Southern Power Grid Co. in Guangzhou to construct...
Red Electrica Installs Spain's First 400-kV Cable System
Spain's Madrid Barajas Airport is being redeveloped with the construction of two new runways, terminal and satellite areas. Overhead lines in close proximity...
Austria/Thailand: VA TECH T&D Installs 230-kV Transmission Line in Thailand
VA TECH Transmission & Distribution (Vienna) has won a major contract for transmission lines in Thailand. The Thailand state-owned power utility EGAT...
Flying Down in the WireZone
An aircraft accident on a transmission line can be costly not only in lives lost but in the interruption of service to major customer areas. Accident...
SCE&G Takes Horizontal Drilling to New Lengths
In July 2001, the South Carolina Department of Transportation decided to construct a new bridge across the Cooper River between the cities of Charleston...
Thriving in a Compliance-Driven Environment
Imagine with the stroke of a pen that a new law makes your utility responsible for thousands of code infractions and suddenly subject to millions of dollars...
Helicopters and Lasers
A Middle Ground in Laser Technology Laser Technology Inc. is finding that lasers and vegetation management do mix especially...
The Netherlands: Dutch Enhance On-Line Monitoring of Medium-Voltage Power Cables
With the support of the Dutch government and two large Dutch grid owners, Continuon and Eneco Netbeheer (together responsible for about 65,000 km [40,3891...
Appalachian Power Transports Transmission Towers
The heavy-lifting phase of ongoing construction of the nation's highest-voltage transmission line is now underway. Appalachian Power (Charleston, West...
AREVA to Build De-Icing and Power-Quality System
AREVA's T&D division (Paris, France) has been awarded a 25-million euro contract in Canada to build the world's first high-voltage direct current (HVDC)-based...
First Phase of Salt River Project Begins
Arizona’s Salt River Project (SRP; Tempe, Arizona, U.S.), a consortium made up of Arizona Public Service Co. (Phoenix, Arizona), Tucson Electric Power Co. (Tucson, Arizona) and the Santa Cruz Water and Power Districts Association (Santa Cruz, California, U.S.) is finally seeing some light at the end of the tunnel for its proposed 500-kV transmission line, which will run from an area near Palo Verde Generating Station to a new Pinal West Substation in western Pinal County near Hidden Valley, Arizona...
Transmission Grid MFCL Prototype Developed
American Electric Power (AEP; Columbus, Ohio, U.S.) and a team consisting of SuperPower Inc. (Schenectady, New York, U.S.), Nexans SuperConductors GmbH (Hürth, Germany) and Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL; Oak Ridge, Tennessee, U.S.) have made it a priority to address fault current over-duty problems at the transmission voltage level of 138-kV and higher....
Infamous Path 15 500-kV Line Opens
Most everyone knows about the notorious transmission bottleneck in the state of California: the Path 15 section of the state’s north and south link between the Bay Area and Los Angeles. ...
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