Underground Transmission & Distribution
Frankfurt Airport Installing Gas-Insulated EHV Line
Siemens Energy has been awarded an order by RWE Transportnetz Strom GmbH in Dortmund, Germany, to install an approximately 1 km-long section of an existing extra-high voltage overhead line at Frankfurt Airport as a buried, gas-insulated extra-high voltage line (GIL). ...
Cable-Replacement Strategy Spans 30 Years
Budgeting Decisions for Underground Primary Cable Replacement are often based upon a reactive approach, replace it as it fails. If preventive replacement...
France and England Interconnection to be Upgraded
AREVA's Transmission and Distribution Division has been awarded a contract with National Grid and RTE, to enhance the reliability and reinforce availability of IFA 2000, the world's largest subsea High-Voltage Direct Current (HVDC) scheme. ...
PG&E Puts Underground Enclosures to the Test
Belowground Enclosures that House Electric or Gas Facilities are Critical to the safety of third parties, often pedestrians, as well as the protection...
Ameren Warms Up to Cold-Shrink Terminations
Transitions From Overhead to Underground Construction require a considerable amount of time for cable terminations. Ameren Corp. (St. Louis, Missouri,...
National Grid Begins Second Phase of Croydon Cable Tunnel
National Grid UK has begun the second phase of a multi-million pound project to build a new tunnel for high-voltage underground electricity cables between its substations at Rowdown and Beddington...
Joint Trench Works
The Process of Installing Underground Cable to Serve Residential and Light Commercial Developments has gone through a tremendous evolution over the past...
Italian Cable Project Receives Financing
The European Investment Bank (EIB) is advancing a 300 million euro loan to Terna Rete Elettrica Nazionale S.p.A., which is responsible for electricity...
Nexans to Supply Submarine Power Cable for Sheringham Shoal Offshore Wind Farm
Nexans has been awarded a contract by StatoilHydro ASA, with an estimated value of 24 million euro, to supply the submarine export cables for the Sheringham...
KCP&L Builds Major Underground Crossing
Kansas City Power & Light (KCP Kansas City, Missouri) and its contractors bored a 385-ft hole underneath a major highway where 88,000 vehicles travel...
BC Transmission to Deploy 3M ACCR in Cross-Water Upgrade for Vancouver Island
BC Transmission Corp. (BCTC), the transmission system operator for the province of British Columbia, will install 3M’s lightweight, high-capacity electricity conductor, 3M Aluminum Conductor Composite Reinforced (ACCR). ...
EIB Finances Submarine HV Link Between Italy and Sardinia
The European Investment Bank is advancing a EUR300 million loan to Terna – Rete Elettrica Nazionale S.p.A., which is responsible in Italy for electricity transmission and dispatching over the high-voltage and extra-high voltage grid – to help finance a new submarine high-voltage power cable between the Italian mainland and Sardinia....
Report: Americans Strike Underground Utilities About Once Per Minute
The Common Ground Alliance has announced findings from its first-ever National Utility Damage Assessment, which showed Americans unintentionally damage underground utilities approximately once per minute every year, risking serious injuries and costly service disruptions, fines and repair costs...
Cable Rejuvenation Buys Insurance
Anderson Island is a Small Island in South Puget Sound about 2 Miles from the Coast near the town of Lacey, Washington, U.S. The island is served by 2.3...
Finland, Sweden Installing New 500-kV Submarine Cable for Interconnector
Nexans has been awarded a contract worth around 150 million Euro by Fingrid Oyj, the electricity transmission system operator in Finland, and Svenska Kraftnät, a state utility that runs the national electrical grid in Sweden. ...
Contractor Invests in Portable Band Saws
The expansion of the nation's electrical grid has increased the demand for the installation of underground high-voltage transmission cable. To cleanly...
Report Backs Undersea Cable to Export Scotland's Wind, Wave Power
An undersea cable that will enable Scottish renewable energy to be distributed around the UK is viable, according to a new study by The Crown Estate....
EDF Energy Networks Invests £362,000 to Remove Power Lines on the Kent Downs
Large stretches of the Kent countryside in Kent, England, are to be transformed thanks to the joint efforts of EDF Energy Networks and the Kent Downs Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty (AONB) Unit. ...
Northeast Utilities Applies Design-Bid-Build
Chronic System Congestion in Southwest Connecticut was Reduced Significantly about a year ago, while saving ratepayers US$150 million. The Bethel-Norwalk...
Thermal Grouts Go the Distance
Most Utilities Use Horizontal Boring or Pipe Jacking to Place Large-Diameter Steel or Polyethylene Casings Under Roadways. Utility services can then be...
Make Safety a Value, Not an Afterthought
Before the sun comes up in Cresthill, Illinois, Henkels & McCoy field crews meet to discuss safety issues related to directional boring and trenching....
Siemens Selects WorleyParsons for Trans Bay Cable Project
Siemens Power Transmission & Distribution Inc. has contracted with Worley-Parsons to provide engineering services for the high-voltage direct current...
Siemens to Deliver HVDC Technology for Low-Loss Power Supply Via Submarine Cable to San Francisco
Siemens Power Transmission and Distribution (Erlangan, Germany) has secured an order to construct an undersea high-voltage direct current (HVDC) transmission...
Lines Versus Cables: Consider All Factors
In Recent Years, the Evolution and Enhanced Performance of Underground Cables with extruded insulations such as cross-linked polyethylene (XLPE) has refocused...
Trans Bay Cable to Build Undersea Link to San Francisco
Trans Bay Cable has awarded Siemens Power Transmission & Distribution, Inc. a contract worth more than US$150 million to construct a 53-mile undersea high voltage direct current transmission link between San Francisco’s City Center electrical power grid and a Pacific Gas & Electric substation near Pittsburg, California....
