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    Typically 35 kV to 1.4 kV, distribution systems take power from the bulk system to deliver to individual customers via overhead lines.

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    Highlights

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    Transmission Reliability

    Success Down South: Entergy Mississippi's Reliability Wins

    July 16, 2024
    The utility is delivering power more reliably than in the past, and simultaneously investing in an ever stronger grid.
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    Transmission Reliability

    Con Edison's Key Considerations For Utility Resilience Planning

    June 3, 2024
    Con Edison’s resilience plan is meant to prevent and mitigate outages, protect public safety, and reduce customer impacts and inconvenience.
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    Podcasts

    New Line Life Podcast: ICYMI: Mutual Aid Without a Storm

    Feb. 23, 2024
    This audio story showcases an article about the Light Up Navajo project from the 2023 T&D World Lineworker Supplement.
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    Overhead Transmission

    In Photos: Keeping Birds and the Power Grid Safe from One Another

    Dec. 15, 2023
    Nesting, hunting, flying, perching, and yes even excreting waste are all natural bird pastimes that, when they occur at the wrong place and the wrong time, can be deadly to the...
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    Overhead Distribution

    NESC Progresses Power Grid Resiliency

    Dec. 12, 2023
    The NESC focuses on standards that help to increase worker safety while improving power grid resiliency in overhead utility pole networks.

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    Wildfire Risk Mitigation

    Feb. 16, 2022
    Learn about the tools and practices that minimize power equipment caused fires.
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    Pultruded composite utility poles, custom fabricated to meet needed strength and stiffness requirements.
    Tim Greenwood, who was featured in a 2018 T&D World Lifeline department, now runs his own line contracting company.
    Tim Greenwood, who was featured in a 2018 T&D World Lifeline department, now runs his own line contracting company.
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    NKT will deliver 545 km of 70 kV, 110 kV, and 150 kV AC onshore power cables to transmission system operator, Elia Transmission Belgium.
    Overhead Distribution

    Large AC Onshore Order to Strengthen Belgium’s Transmission Grid

    Sept. 3, 2024
    NKT will supply 545 km of high-voltage power cables which are planned to be delivered and installed between 2025 and 2027.
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    The journeyman lineworker teams had to compete in full fall protection in teams of three at the 2023 International Lineman’s Rodeo.
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    Celebrating the Courage and Competition of the Line Trade

    Aug. 27, 2024
    The International Lineman’s Rodeo has become a beloved fall tradition, blending family memories with the celebration of the courageous lineworkers who keep our lights on.
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    Predictive Restoration: Leveraging an ADMS for Enhanced Outage Management

    Aug. 13, 2024
    When it comes to power distribution, it’s helpful to imagine utilities as traffic police guiding and controlling the influx of vehicles at an intersection.
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    DOE Awards $600 Million Grant to Improve California’s Electricity Grid and Build Clean Energy Projects

    Aug. 12, 2024
    A Northern California electrical grid project has also received $88 million in GRIP funding to develop a network of community microgrids for a highly reliable, resilient, and ...