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Texas’ Big Freeze: The 2021 Power Crisis and the Lessons Learned …
WEBJan 25, 2022 · Protecting the Grid. Despite past warnings and reminders by FERC and NERC, that generating units needed to prepare for coming winters, and despite the detailed instructions the agencies sent about winterization, 49 generating units in Southwest Power Pool (15 percent, 1,944 MW of nameplate capacity), 26 in ERCOT (7 percent, 3,675 MW), and three units in Midcontinent Independent System Operator ...
Dominion's New Online Map Makes it Easier to Track Power …
WEBSep 23, 2015 · Dominion Virginia Power has introduced a new online interactive outage map that provides more streamlined, detailed information to enable customers to quickly report and accurately track power outages and restoration. "Next to energy, the most important thing we can provide to customers is information," said Becky Merritt, vice president of Customer Service.
Asplundh Tree Expert, LLC | T&D World
WEBJan 22, 2024 · For 96 years, Asplundh has provided safe and cost-effective vegetation management and infrastructure design, construction, and support solutions to investor- and cooperatively owned utilities, departments of transportation, and other municipal and government agencies.
Strategic Undergrounding from the Perspective of Cable …
WEBOct 4, 2021 · It is manufactured by continuously extruding a crush and impact resistant HDPE conduit over a single cable or a parallel cable assembly. CIC might contain one cable or three-phase cables, but we have seen up to 4 cable components with a spare or an added equipment grounding conductor being designed using CIC.
What is Horizontal Drilling, and Why is it Important? - T&D World
WEBMay 26, 2022 · Horizontal directional drilling (HDD) is a relatively new telecommunications and utility installation technology. It allows for greater precision and flexibility in the placement. In addition, it eliminates the necessity of costly digging and the need for large crews, road closures, and other complications associated with traditional digging ...
Overhead or Underground Transmission? That is (Still) the Question
WEBFeb 24, 2022 · Robert G. Olsen, Jon T. Leman. For years, the electric utility industry has been questioning whether to use overhead or underground systems for transmission of power using high-voltage transmission lines. Issues driving this discussion range from aesthetics to audible noise and electromagnetic field exposure, to …
Engineering a 500-kV Underground System - T&D World
WEBApr 28, 2017 · Ian Grant. The 500-kV Tehachapi Renewable Transmission project in Southern California, U.S., will deliver renewable energy from Kern County, south through Los Angeles County and then east to the city of Ontario in San Bernardino County, a distance of more than 170 miles (274 km). The project, which replaced many of Southern California Edison ...
A Short History: War of The Currents - T&D World
WEBAug 18, 2017 · The war of the currents, as historians call it, was underway big time. It was an epic battle between these two geniuses and the technologies of AC and DC. There was a great deal of turmoil until the Westinghouse/Tesla AC system was selected to illuminate the 1893 Chicago World Fair. Tesla’s polyphase system of AC power generation and ...
Quanta Linemen Stay Safe While Working Live Lines - T&D World
WEBAug 1, 2008 · High-Voltage Barehand. Northeast Utilities' subsidiary Western Massachusetts Electric Co. (WMECO) is changing out 14 H-frame wood structures for steel structures on a live 345-kV line from Granby through Pelham, Massachusetts, to Shutesbury, Massachusetts. The project, which is taking place two hours west of Boston, began in June 2008 and is ...