Canada/United States: Canada's Energy Board Rejects Transmission Line to U.S. Plant
The National Energy Board of Canada has denied an application by Sumas Energy 2 Inc. (SE2; Bellingham, Washington, U.S.) to construct the Canadian portion...
DVP Refurbishes Guyed Transmission Towers
In the mid 1960s, Dominion Virginia Power (DVP; Richmond, Virginia, U.S.) constructed the first operational 500-kV transmission lines in the United States....
Composite Technology Announces $2.7 Million Agreement to Construct ACCC Power Transmission Line in Kansas
Composite Technology Corp. (CTC; Irvine, California, U.S.) has reached an agreement with the city of Kingman, Kansas, U.S., to construct a 21-mile (34-km)...
Norris Public Power Completes 69-kV Transmission Construction on Schedule
Norris Public Power District (NPPD; Beatrice, Nebraska, U.S.) began construction of 9 miles (14 km) of 69-kV transmission construction in September 2003....
Taking Your Major Projects from Design to Implementation
The rules of electric utility transmission construction have changed over the past several years. A combination of economic and political factors has...
United States: BPA Power Line Completed Just in Time to Keep Lights On
The Bonneville Power Administration (BPA; Portland, Oregon) reports that it strengthened a weak link in the Puget Sound area's electrical transmission...
Sharyland Utilities to Build Texas-Mexico DC Tie
Sharyland Utilities (McAllen, Texas, U.S) plans to build an electrical tie between the Texas and Mexico power grids. This cross-border tie will be the...
Silicon Valley Power Breaks Ground on US$23 Million Transmission Line
Silicon Valley Power, the city of Santa Clara's (California, U.S.) municipal electric utility, officially began construction on a 230-kV transmission...
Second-Generation HTS Wire Program Rated No. 1
Intermagnetics General Corp.'s subsidiary SuperPower Inc. (Latham, New York, U.S.) received top ranking in a federally sanctioned review for advancing...
Can Utilities Squeeze More Capacity Out of the Grid?
The recent Northeast blackout in the United States, followed by blackouts in England, Italy and Scandinavia, illustrates the complexity of our interconnected...
WAPA and DOE Field Test Composite 3M Conductor
North Dakota epitomizes the wide-open spaces of the prairie states in the central United States. With high winds, and extreme cold and ice, this is an...
Work Begins on California's Path 15
Construction crews are grading roads and constructing tower foundations for the Path 15 transmission upgrade in central California. On Sept. 15, 2003,...
Korea: KEPCO Develops Digital Simulator for Large-Scale Transmission System Development Studies
To fully understand the application of advanced power system technologies, and techniques such as ultra-high-voltage transmission, FACTS, HVDC and tie-line...
AEP Releases Transmission Events Timeline; Automated Controls Prevent Spread of Blackouts
American Electric Power (AEP, Columbus, Ohio) released a timeline of events and conditions detected by automated controls on its transmission grid Aug....
KCP&L Reconductors Energized 345-kV Line
Transmission congestion on the Kansas City Power & Light (KCP Kansas City, Missouri, U.S.) 345-kV LaCygne-Stillwell Line represented a serious bottleneck...
Legwork and Planning Come Together in Massive Wooden Transmission Pole Replacement Job in West Virginia
No matter how you cut it, the Hopkins Fork 46-kV transmission line upgrade job was going to be tough, and AEP (Columbus, Ohio, U.S.) was committed to...
Aerial Damper Changeout On Energized 500-kV DC Line
Maintaining continuous operation of any transmission line is important, but the concern is even more critical when discussing an extra-high-voltage (EHV)...
AIR2 Completes Energized Changeout
AIR2 (Timonium, Maryland, U.S.) completed a helicopter-assisted crossarm changeout on an energized 345-kV wooden H-frame transmission line structure on...
ALSTOM Makes Arctic Grid Connections
The world's most northernly windfarm at Havygavlen in Finnmark, Norway, was officially opened on June 4, 2003, by Norwegian Oil and Energy Minister Einar...
Australian Power Pole Testing Method
In the June 2003 issue, the reader service number was incorrect for the news brief Australian Power Pole Testing Method Winds Contract on page 12. Therefore,...
The Science of Pole Selection
Construction in any industry is often guided by empirical results, but calculated designs are always preferred over experiential values. In building transmission...
Austin Energy Embraces Steel
Just over a decade ago, Austin Energy (Austin, Texas, U.S.), a municipally owned utility serving 364,000 customers in central Texas, turned to steel distribution...
Australian Power Pole Testing Method Wins Contract
A unique method of testing power pole strength has won a major contract with China Light & Power in Hong Kong. This technique not only uncovers all hidden...
CCA-Treated Wood Faces Potential Litigation
In May 2001, the Environmental Working Group and the Healthy Building Network formally petitioned the Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) to ban...
Concrete-Filled Steel Pole Goes Up in Southern Florida
Sometimes transmission poles in urban areas must fit into tight locations. Such is the case for poles located in a sidewalk when the line is built in...
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