A Meeting of the Minds
Placing transmission in congested areas has never been more difficult. Many utilities have access to imminent domain, but they are justifiably hesitant...
ComEd-Southwire Alliance Develops and Installs FOTC
In 1999, ComEd (Chicago, Illinois, U.S.) and Southwire (Carrollton, Georgia, U.S.) began investigating a new concept to accurately determine the thermal...
Finding Hidden Capacity In Transmission Lines
As the transmission infrastructure ages and as permitting and constructing new facilities become increasingly difficult pressure to increase the use of...
Kenya: POWER Engineers to Perform Feasibility Studies For Transmission Projects in Kenya
POWER Engineers Inc. (Hailey, Idaho, U.S.) will perform a feasibility study of four high-priority power transmission projects in Kenya. The U.S. Trade...
United States: DOE Focuses on High-Performance Overhead Conductors
The United States Department of Energy (DOE) has asked 3M (St. Paul, Minnesota) to lead an industry team to accelerate field testing and deployment of...
BPA to Install High-Voltage Power Lines in Pacific Northwest
The Bonneville Power Administration (BPA, Portland, Oregon, U.S.) has selected the team of Duke Energy-Energy Delivery Services (DE-EDS, Charlotte, North...
Pumping Power Underground
The 1960s and 1970s were the heyday of underground transmission cables. Utilities installed hundreds of miles of 138-kV and 230-kV cables and put into...
Long Island's T&D System Rated First in New York State
According to the New York State (NYS) Public Service Commission criteria, Long Island's overhead transmission and distribution system ranks first in the...
Advanced Technology for Transmission Line Modeling
Electric utilities continually face the challenge to satisfy the growing energy demands in North America. The most obvious solution, to construct new...
Switzerland: ABB to Lead $65 Million Power Line Project in Java
A consortium led by ABB, the global power and technology company, has signed a contract worth about 71 million euros (US$65 million) with the Indonesian...
AEP Develops Sound Right-of-Way Program
American Electric Power (AEP, Columbus, Ohio, U.S.) man-ages vegetation on more than 186,000 miles (299,338 km) of distribution and 33,800 miles (54,396...
Maximize Use of Existing Route
Although aluminum conductor was used for overhead transmission as early as 1898, its widespread use did not occur A until the 1940s, when copper was designated...
Central Maine Power Triples Line Capacity
For some time now, electric utilities have been engaged in a delicate balancing act with respect to optimizing plant investment for maintaining a high...
Design Software Solves Line Construction Problem
West Bengal State Electricity Board (WBSEB, West Bengal, India) constructed a 220-kV double-circuit transmission line from Jeerat 400/220/132-kV Substation...
Line Design Goes Airborne
The proliferation of power producers around Houston, Texas, U.S., is creating a heavy demand for transmission line access to transfer power to the open...
EGAT Completes Major Energy Expansion
Rapid development in the Greater Bangkok area is leading to a substantial increase in the demand for energy. This expansion is particularly challenging...
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