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BPA to Rebuild 60-year-old Power Line Serving Southeast Idaho
BPA is taking steps to ensure its system can continue to provide reliable electrical service to southeast Idaho and keep pace with the area's growth....
PSE&G and PPL Electric Utilities Propose Routes for New 500-kV Line
Public Service Electric and Gas Co. (PSE&G) and PPL Electric Utilities (PPL) announced possible routes for a new power line that will assure the reliability of the transmission system and meet growing demand for safe, reliable power in the region. ...
Long Island Sound Cable Replacement Project Nears Completion
CL&P and Long Island Power Authority (LIPA) are replacing seven fluid-filled transmission cables between Norwalk, CT and Northport, NY with three new solid-core cables that will be buried beneath the seabed of Long Island Sound...
Transmission-Voltage Superconductor Cable Energized in LIPA's Grid
Long Island Power Authority and American Superconductor Corp. have announced the operation of the world’s first high-temperature superconductor (HTS) power transmission cable system in a commercial power grid....
ComEd’s 345-kV West Loop Project Nears Completion
Commonwealth Edison’s (ComEd) ambitious effort-- the West Loop project -- to bring 345-kV bulk power into Chicago’s central business district to improve reliability has reached its 95 percent completion milestone. ...
Brazil’s CTEEP Chooses 3M ACCR for Line Upgrade
One of Brazil’s largest electric utilities, Companhia de Transmissao de Energia Eletrica Paulista (CTEEP), will install the 3M Aluminum Conductor Composite Reinforced (ACCR) to upgrade the capacity of a key transmission line crossing the Parana River. ...
AEP Transmission Venture With Allegheny Receives Approval for Transmission Incentives From FERC
American Electric Power has announced that the Potomac-Appalachian Transmission Highline (PATH), AEP's transmission joint venture with Allegheny Energy, received approval from the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission for transmission incentives to help support construction of the approximately 290-mile, extra-high voltage transmission line from West Virginia into Maryland. ...
Southern California Edison Starts Construction on the Nation's Largest Wind Transmission Project
In the most recent demonstration of its national leadership role in renewable and alternative energy, Southern California Edison (SCE) has begun construction of the largest wind transmission project in the United States. ...
Arrowhead-Weston Transmission Line Energized
American Transmission Co., Pewaukee, WI, energized the completed 220-mile, 345-kV Arrowhead-Weston transmission line linking Wausau, Wisconsin, and Duluth, Minnesota. ...
Northeast Utilities Strengthens its High Voltage Transmission Lines Using an Implosion Splice Method
Special Plan to Rebuild 115-kV Transmission Line Keeps Lines Energized Most of the Time
In mid-December Henkels & McCoy completed Phase One of the Plumtree to Triangle 115-kV Rebuild Project in western Connecticut for Northeast Utilities. The project is replacing 16, 115-kV lattice steel towers with 32 steel monopole structures. New conductor and OPGW ...
Estlink submarine cable begins its seaward journey toward Estonia
At the end of August, 2006, the loading of the Estlink submarine cable onto a special ship began in Sweden, via which the electric cable will be transported to the Gulf of Finland by the middle of September, and laid on the seabed there. ...
Valmont-Newmark Receives Product Line Strategy Award from Frost & Sullivan for Its Comprehensive Overhead Structure Solutions
Frost & Sullivan's recent analysis of the North American overhead electrical transmission and distribution structure markets selected Valmont-Newmark as the recipient of the 2005 Award for Product Line Strategy for its wide-ranging overhead structure solutions...
California ISO Board Approves Sunrise/Greenpath Transmission Project
The California Independent System Operator Corporation (California ISO) Board of Governors has unanimously approved the Sunrise/Greenpath transmission project proposed jointly by San Diego Gas and Electric ...
Commission Conditionally Approves Transmission Rights for 190-Mile Transmission Line Linking Alberta, Montana
The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission today conditionally accepted a proposal that will provide up to 600 MW of transmission capacity between Alberta, Canada, and Great Falls, Montana. ...
PJM Authorizes Construction of $1.3 Billion in Transmission Upgrades
PSC Wisconsin Approves Two, 50-Mile Transmission Lines in Northern Wisconsin
Black & Veatch Successfully Completes Role in Major San Francisco Area Transmission Line Projects
