Municipal Utilities Talk About Underground
At the 2006 Kansas Municipal Utilities Underground Workshop in Winfield, Kansas, utility representatives said trying to respond to trouble calls and maintain...
Midwest Utility Continues With Conversion Process
Edmond Electric, a municipal utility north of Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, has been converting residential areas that are in need of upgrades from overhead...
HECO Conducts Mile-Long Cable Pull Under Pearl Harbor
When the Hawaiian Electric Co. Inc. (HECO; Honolulu, Hawaii, U.S.) was awarded the US$22 million contract to install a substation and underwater power...
Cable Analysis Innovation
Over the years, American electric power has constructed thousands of circuit miles of underground cables throughout its 11-state territory. These underground...
Black & Veatch Completes Role in Major San Francisco Transmission Line Projects
Black & Veatch through its energy business B&V energy, completed construction of one of the longest 230-kV underground transmission projects in the United...
Sweden Confronts Ground-Line Corrosion
Steel in soil is subjected to complicated corrosion conditions that do not exist in air. Corrosivity of soil differs with its composition and humidity,...
Line Locating in Chicago
ComEd locates its own facilities in downtown Chicago, some of the most critical lines in the system....
Design and Test 345-kV Cable Vaults
Connecticut Light & Power is currrently constructing two large transmission cable projects along 32 miles (51 km) of heavily traveled state roads in Southwest...
HV Transmission Goes Underground
It is either age or some intractable feature of modernity: Things that used to be crystal clear are now more than just a bit murky. The old overhead versus...
A New Approach to Cable Replacement
During the late 1960s and early 1970s, the residential development boom in suburban areas prompted electric utilities to begin investing heavily in underground...
Safety Review Results In New Equipment
Con Edison operates and maintains one of the most extensive underground distribution systems in the nation. As part of normal and emergency operations,...
Norway Utilizes HVDC Light System
The first project in the world to use ABB's (Zurich, Switzerland) HVDC Light power system for offshore transmission was commissioned in October. The power...
High-Voltage Underground Cable Testing at LADWP
Utilities today are expected to reduce operating and maintenance costs while continuing to provide high-quality power and reliable service. This expectation...
High-Voltage Underground Cable Testing at LADWP
AS REGULATORY UNCERtainty is gripped over the past decade, it seems like we've majored in pain and minored in gain. We have a history of launching into...
Distribution Goes Underground
No one ever said converting overhead (OH) facilities to underground (UG) was going to be easy. But with years of practice, Santee Cooper (South Carolina...
Monitor the Condition of Your Underground Cable
Prior to 1980, PPL Electric Utilities (PPL; Allentown, Pennsylvania, U.S.) installed more than 8 million ft (2.4 million m) of bare concentric neutral...
Revisiting 66-kV to 132-kV Fluid-Filled Cable Joints
Cable failures in Auckland, New Zealand, in 1998 highlighted the need for a means to determine whether existing and new underground cables and joints...
Nebraska Utility Prepares for Transitional Downtown Splice
Lincoln Electric System (LES) has a network system in its downtown area of Lincoln, Nebraska, that consists of about 17 blocks of paper-insulated lead-covered...
The Future of Cable in Korea
The increasing demand for power and the deregulation of the power industry continue to produce problems for transmission and distribution system operators...
Estlink Submarine Cable Project Launched
On April 29, 2005, a power transmission link between the Baltic States and Finland was formally launched at a signing ceremony between the shareholders...
Forced Cooling Eliminates Distribution Bottleneck
Seattle City Light (SCL) identified a thermal bottleneck that limited ampacity of 13-kV cables inside duct banks near a major substation supplying downtown...
European Community Announces Major Cable Developments
In 1991, CIGR (Conseil International des Grands Rseaux lectriques) stated that in developing extra-high-voltage (EHV) cables with extruded insulation...
The Baltics and Nordic Electricity Markets to Get Connected
A major power transmission link between Finland and Estonia was formally launched in April 2005 at a signing ceremony between representatives of ABB and...
Installing Conduit Calls For Highly Mobile Equipment
Having the right equipment and manpower to complete a job is on every utility construction manager's mind as he or she is handed a new project. But, what...
SCE Installs 230-kV Underground Circuits
Located in the fastest growing area of Southern California Edison’s (SCE; Rosemead, California, U.S.) coverage area, the Mountainview Power Project is well on its way to generating 1054 MW of electricity. ...
