Posts Tagged ‘transmission lines’:

2025-04-02 Drone Deploys A Deicer Onto A High Voltage Transmission Line

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2024-05-15 Reconductoring Transmission Lines

Good article a few months old.  JHAT recently had this reconductoring topic.  This article also describes the Heimdall Ball temperature monitoring.  One thing that has not been talked about is the use of BESS – battery energy storage systems – to reduce the peak load on the transmission lines.  That’s what they did in Australia

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2024-04-28 US Plan To Upgrade 100k Miles Of Transmission Lines In 5 Years

Short article about deployment of enhancements such as high performance conductors.  Quote: “”…and up to $331 million from the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law for a new 285-mile transmission line that will carry more than 2 gigawatts (GW) of transmission capacity from Idaho to Nevada.”” The US just came up with a plan to upgrade 100k miles

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2021-11-30 Elec Transmission Lines Needed Urgently – Oliver

This article emphasizes that electric transmission lines are needed to connect US consumers to zero emission electricity. Adult comedian John Oliver gives us the whole story. https://www.power-grid.com/td/transmission-to-connect-us-consumers-to-zero-emission-electricity/

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