Iraq/United States: POWER Engineers Joins Iraqi Reconstruction Contract
POWER Engineers Inc. (Haily, Idaho), under a contract with the Perini Corp. (Framingham, Massachusetts), will provide engineering for the Iraq Infrastructure...
Canada/United States: Canada's Energy Board Rejects Transmission Line to U.S. Plant
The National Energy Board of Canada has denied an application by Sumas Energy 2 Inc. (SE2; Bellingham, Washington, U.S.) to construct the Canadian portion...
Composite Technology Announces $2.7 Million Agreement to Construct ACCC Power Transmission Line in Kansas
Composite Technology Corp. (CTC; Irvine, California, U.S.) has reached an agreement with the city of Kingman, Kansas, U.S., to construct a 21-mile (34-km)...
Norris Public Power Completes 69-kV Transmission Construction on Schedule
Norris Public Power District (NPPD; Beatrice, Nebraska, U.S.) began construction of 9 miles (14 km) of 69-kV transmission construction in September 2003....
DVP Refurbishes Guyed Transmission Towers
In the mid 1960s, Dominion Virginia Power (DVP; Richmond, Virginia, U.S.) constructed the first operational 500-kV transmission lines in the United States....
United States: BPA Power Line Completed Just in Time to Keep Lights On
The Bonneville Power Administration (BPA; Portland, Oregon) reports that it strengthened a weak link in the Puget Sound area's electrical transmission...
Taking Your Major Projects from Design to Implementation
The rules of electric utility transmission construction have changed over the past several years. A combination of economic and political factors has...
Silicon Valley Power Breaks Ground on US$23 Million Transmission Line
Silicon Valley Power, the city of Santa Clara's (California, U.S.) municipal electric utility, officially began construction on a 230-kV transmission...
Sharyland Utilities to Build Texas-Mexico DC Tie
Sharyland Utilities (McAllen, Texas, U.S) plans to build an electrical tie between the Texas and Mexico power grids. This cross-border tie will be the...
Second-Generation HTS Wire Program Rated No. 1
Intermagnetics General Corp.'s subsidiary SuperPower Inc. (Latham, New York, U.S.) received top ranking in a federally sanctioned review for advancing...
Can Utilities Squeeze More Capacity Out of the Grid?
The recent Northeast blackout in the United States, followed by blackouts in England, Italy and Scandinavia, illustrates the complexity of our interconnected...
WAPA and DOE Field Test Composite 3M Conductor
North Dakota epitomizes the wide-open spaces of the prairie states in the central United States. With high winds, and extreme cold and ice, this is an...
Work Begins on California's Path 15
Construction crews are grading roads and constructing tower foundations for the Path 15 transmission upgrade in central California. On Sept. 15, 2003,...
Korea: KEPCO Develops Digital Simulator for Large-Scale Transmission System Development Studies
To fully understand the application of advanced power system technologies, and techniques such as ultra-high-voltage transmission, FACTS, HVDC and tie-line...
Legwork and Planning Come Together in Massive Wooden Transmission Pole Replacement Job in West Virginia
No matter how you cut it, the Hopkins Fork 46-kV transmission line upgrade job was going to be tough, and AEP (Columbus, Ohio, U.S.) was committed to...
AEP Releases Transmission Events Timeline; Automated Controls Prevent Spread of Blackouts
American Electric Power (AEP, Columbus, Ohio) released a timeline of events and conditions detected by automated controls on its transmission grid Aug....
KCP&L Reconductors Energized 345-kV Line
Transmission congestion on the Kansas City Power & Light (KCP Kansas City, Missouri, U.S.) 345-kV LaCygne-Stillwell Line represented a serious bottleneck...
AIR2 Completes Energized Changeout
AIR2 (Timonium, Maryland, U.S.) completed a helicopter-assisted crossarm changeout on an energized 345-kV wooden H-frame transmission line structure on...
ALSTOM Makes Arctic Grid Connections
The world's most northernly windfarm at Havygavlen in Finnmark, Norway, was officially opened on June 4, 2003, by Norwegian Oil and Energy Minister Einar...
Australian Power Pole Testing Method
In the June 2003 issue, the reader service number was incorrect for the news brief Australian Power Pole Testing Method Winds Contract on page 12. Therefore,...
Aerial Damper Changeout On Energized 500-kV DC Line
Maintaining continuous operation of any transmission line is important, but the concern is even more critical when discussing an extra-high-voltage (EHV)...
The Science of Pole Selection
Construction in any industry is often guided by empirical results, but calculated designs are always preferred over experiential values. In building transmission...
Utilities Make Tradeoffs When Selecting Pole Types
For more than 20 years, I've been dealing with poles involving specifications, design, manufacturing, treatments, economics, hardware, testing, repair,...
Ministry of Electricity and Water Doubles Capacity
In April 2003, the Ministry of Electricity and Water (MEW; Salalah, Oman) completed the second major installation of its J-Power System's Gap-type uprating...
Aldridge Overcomes Obstacles in 230-kV Creek Project
In mid-October 2002, Conectiv Power Delivery (Carneys Point, New Jersey, U.S.) awarded Aldridge Electric's Drilling Division (Libertyville, Illinois,...
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