Construction Resumes on the Topock-Davis-Lake Mead Transmission Line
Construction of the Western Area Power Administration (Western) 80-mile Topock-Davis-Lake Mead line that parallels the Colorado River along Arizona’s western border with California and extends ...
ABB to Upgrade Control and Valve Cooling System for HVDC Station in New Mexico
ABB has been selected by the Public Service Company of New Mexico (PNM) to upgrade the control and the valve cooling systems of their existing ABB HVDC (High Voltage Direct Current) system delivered over 20 years ago. ...
Work Moves Ahead on New Transmission Line in Nebraska
While utilities in central Nebraska work to repair their storm-ravaged power lines, Omaha Public Power District's Board of Directors yesterday took another step to strengthen its electrical transmission ...
Asplundh Sends 349 Tree Crews in Response to Midwest Ice Storm
In response to a devastating ice storm that struck parts of Texas, Missouri and Oklahoma, Asplundh Tree Expert Co. dispatched 349 tree trimming crews comprised of over 1,000 individuals to aid in the restoration ...
Construction Begins on Super High-Voltage Power Lines
Construction has began on the world's first 800-kV direct current transmission lines in Yi Autonomous Prefecture of Chuxiong, southwest China's Yunnan Province...
Fort Mojave Tribal Utility to Install 3M’s High-Capacity ACCR Conductor
Aha Macav Power Services, a utility owned and operated by the Fort Mojave Tribe in the southwest, will become the first Native American utility to deploy 3M aluminum conductor composite ...
Estlink Submarine Becomes Operational
On January 2, 2007, ABB handed over the Estlink submarine cable to the Baltic and Finnish power companies. Electricity trade via the Estlink submarine cable commenced on Thursday, January 4. ...
AES Announces Plans to Expand Electricity Service in Cameroon
The AES Corp. announced that its subsidiary, AES SONEL, plans to expand its electricity network in Cameroon, more than doubling the number of people it currently serves over the next 15 years and extending its network to previously unserved parts of the country. The improvements ...
Chelyabinsk Region Government, RAO UES Sign Agreement to Improve Reliability of Power Supply in the Chelyabinsk Region
The Chelyabinsk Region Government and RAO "UES of Russia", with the participation of Presidential Plenipotentiary Representative to the Urals Federal District, have signed an Agreement on Cooperation in implementing capital investment projects to build and refurbish the electric power facilities ...
AREVA to Modernize Moscow’s Power Grid
AREVA’s Transmission and Distribution Division (T&D) has won a large-scale contract in Russia, worth several tens of millions of euros, to modernize Moscow’s electricity network...
Wisconsin Commission Approves 138-kV Line in Northern Wisconsin and Upper Michigan
After many months of public input and regulatory review, the Public Service Commission of Wisconsin gave its final approval to a power line project proposed by American Transmission Co. ...
Qatar to Expand Power System with 25 New Siemens GIS Substations
As part of the further expansion of the power supply system in Qatar, Siemens Power Transmission and Distribution (PTD) has been awarded an order worth over 700 million euros by Qatar General Electricity ...
Inauguration Celebrates First Power Link Between Baltic States and Finland
The Estlink submarine cable, built in record time, connects the Harku 330 kV converter station outside Tallinn and the Espoo 440 kV converter station near Helsinki, linking, for the first time in history, the electricity markets of the Baltic States and the Nordic countries...
Hydro-Quebec Orders ABB HVDC Converter Station to Connect Quebec and Ontario Transmission Grids
ABB has received a $200 million CAD ($175 MUSD) order from Hydro-Québec to strengthen the electrical transmission grid between Quebec and Ontario. ABB will deliver a high-voltage direct current (HVDC) converter station that will add 1,250 MW of transmission capacity ...
Project Update on Juan de Fuca Cable Project
Sea Breeze Power Corp., on behalf of its affiliate, Sea Breeze Victoria Converter Corporation (“Sea Breeze-VCC”), announces that key permitting milestones for the Juan de Fuca (JDF) Cable Project, a 550 MW High Voltage ...
Siemens to Replace Air-insulated Switching Station in the Moscow City Center with GIS Technology without Interrupting Operation
Siemens Power Transmission and Distribution (PTD) is replacing a 40-year old high-voltage outdoor switching station (500/220/110 kV) in the Moscow city center with modern, space-saving gas-insulated switchgear (GIS). The order has a value of about €53 million. The customer...
Start-up of Estlink Submarine Cable Might Be Delayed
Problems in tests being conducted in the converter station in Finland might delay the start-up of the Estlink submarine cable. Tests in Espoo substations have been temporarily discontinued. Starting from the middle ...
AEP and MidAmerican Energy Holdings Co. to Form Joint Venture Company to Build Transmission in Texas
American Electric Power (AEP) has signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) with MidAmerican Energy Holdings Co. (MidAmerican) to form a joint venture company to build and own new electric transmission assets ...
Connecticut Transmission Infrastructure
Quanta Services, Inc. has secured a contract with Northeast Utilities (NU) for transmission infrastructure services spanning some 45 miles in Connecticut. The contract is part of the Middletown-to-Norwalk project and encompasses ...
CL&P Energizes New Bethel-to-Norwalk Transmission Line as Part of Strategy to Meet Regional Energy Needs
The Connecticut Light and Power Co. (CL&P), part of the Northeast Utilities System, announced that on October 12, 2006, it energized the new Bethel-to-Norwalk (B/N) 345- kV electric transmission line...
National Grid Responds to Rare Early October Snow Storm
A rare early October snow storm dumped 2 ft of wet snow on western New York State, including Buffalo, toppling trees and power lines. Over 265,000 homes and businesses were affected by the storm and were without power...
Hydro One and ITCTransmission Replacing Canadian-U.S. Interconnection Circuit
Hydro One, Ontario, Canada, is rebuilding the 1.21mile 230-kV interconnection circuit that connects to the ITCTransmission, a subsidiary of ITC Holdings system in Southeast Michigan that was removed after gale-force winds brought down a transmission tower in the Sarnia, Ontario area in April, 2003...
Anaheim Dedicates First Underground Electric Substation in U.S.
Anaheim Public Utilities, in a partnership that included the city’s Community Services Departments as well as some of the nation’s top energy contracting and consulting firms, dedicated Park Substation, the first underground electric substation in the United States...
California Energy Commission Releases Proposed Changes for
The California Energy Commission released the Presiding Member's Proposed Decision (PMPD) for the Blythe Energy Project (BEP) Transmission Line Modification including a new substation and additional transmission lines...
New Power Cable Technology Launched at AEP's Bixby Station
An innovative High Temperature Superconducting (HTS) power cable system was launched at American Electric Power's Bixby Station outside of Columbus, Ohio, beginning a two-year test of a new HTS cable design that holds promise for lowering the costs of HTS cable...
