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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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    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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    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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    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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    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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    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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    The storm is forecast to make landfall later this week as a major hurricane along Florida’s West Coast and maintain its hurricane strength as it crosses the peninsula.
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    Dominion Energy Installs Its First Composite Poles

    Sept. 23, 2024
    After an in-depth review of pole materials, the utility installed 30 composite poles in Virginia Beach and looks ahead to more installations.
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    Entergy Responds to More than 300K Outages from Hurricane Francine

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    Just 36 hours after Hurricane Francine’s landfall, Entergy’s workforce has returned electrical power to 65% of impacted customers.