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    Text messaging isn’t just for reminders—it's helping utilities boost satisfaction, reduce costs, and prevent outages. Learn how smart messaging strategies are transforming customer...
    July 29, 2025
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    Traditional grid planning can’t meet the demands of a distributed energy future. Explore how grid-edge flexibility and smarter DER deployment are reshaping resilience, operations...
    July 24, 2025
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    In an increasingly digital world, telecommunications contractors are looking for ways to connect people faster and more reliably. For BComm Constructors, that meant taking control...
    June 18, 2025
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    Discover why a centralized system of record is essential for modern vegetation management. Improve efficiency, ensure compliance, and future-proof your utility operations with...
    June 17, 2025

    Podcasts

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    This audio story is narrated from the first story in our Wildfire Mitigation special report and focuses on PGE's holistic approach, which serves as a model for preventing wildfires...
    June 27, 2025
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    Alman Kerste, a journeyman lineworker for Evergy, has nearly 20 years of experience in the line trade and has been a competitor and a volunteer for the International Lineman's...
    June 20, 2025
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    In this audio story, ComEd shares how it is focusing on training its field workforce, organizing all-female climb clinics and partnering with vendors to offer new PPE that fits...
    June 13, 2025
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    In this audio story, Entergy describes four tactics for better restoration from the 2024 hurricane season.
    June 6, 2025

    Transmission

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    Transmission line design is a complex process that requires looking beyond the design wind speed.
    Feb. 3, 2025
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    This audio story explores how a Scottish utility can divert birds from power lines through a combination of drones, robots and specially designed visual signals.
    Sept. 13, 2024
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    Transmission lines connecting the Isle of Skye with mainland Scotland. SSEN Transmission plans to install bird diverters using robots and drones at this power connection.
    A combination of drones, robots and specially designed visual signals can divert birds from Scottish power lines.
    Aug. 6, 2024
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    FERC Order No. 1920 represents the first time in more than a decade that FERC has addressed regional transmission strategy.
    FERC’s most far-reaching rule in decades is all about planning, building a more resilient grid and how to pay for upgrades.
    June 27, 2024

    Distribution

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    Entergy Mississippi crews replacing distribution poles.
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    The utility is delivering power more reliably than in the past, and simultaneously investing in an ever stronger grid.
    July 16, 2024
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    A Con Edison worker with insulated tools approaches a downed distribution pole on a Yonkers street after a storm in March 2018.
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    Con Edison’s resilience plan is meant to prevent and mitigate outages, protect public safety, and reduce customer impacts and inconvenience.
    June 3, 2024
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    This audio story showcases an article about the Light Up Navajo project from the 2023 T&D World Lineworker Supplement.
    Feb. 23, 2024
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    Common ravens roosting at night on 500kV towers.
    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...
    Dec. 15, 2023

    Operations

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    David Hernandez, regional operations supervisor for Pedernales Electric Cooperative, is a long-time International Lineman's Rodeo competitor and loves his career in the line trade...
    June 6, 2025
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    Andrea Simmons, ComEd crew leader, demonstrates how to climb a utility pole to participants of a March 2025 Women’s Climb Clinic for a first-hand look at what it takes to join the electrical trades.
    The Illinois utility shares four of its diversity strategies to recruit and train diverse candidates and keep them safe in the field.
    May 29, 2025
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    Vincent Napolitano, an apprentice at Ameren Illinois, competed at the 2024 International Lineman's Rodeo and enjoys training others new to the line trade.
    May 16, 2025
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    By listening to this audio story, lineworkers can discover ways to find and eliminate the noise.
    May 6, 2025

    Business & Policy

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    Monopole power transmission equipment by Jiangsu SHEMAR Power Co. on the IEEE PES T&D show floor.
    Industry business models, new regulation and improving T&D technologies are all parts of the puzzle.
    May 15, 2024
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    The utility also has shuffled some other executives’ roles as 44-year company veteran Steve Young prepares to retire.
    March 15, 2024
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    The amount of payment does vary from utility to utility.
    March 12, 2024
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    The request is estimated to result in an average increase of less than 1% of a customer's total bill.
    March 11, 2024

    Distributed Energy Resources

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    Despite evolving policy landscapes, the U.S. battery storage market is expanding at an unprecedented pace.
    April 1, 2025
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    A model of an electrical substation. Net zero or real zero energy by 2050 has dramatic implications on the current planning, design, operations and maintenance of the electric transmission and distribution grid that delivers that energy.
    How the power sector can reach net zero and eventually real zero carbon content, and how the transmission and distribution grid can help deliver on these goals.
    July 25, 2024
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    Beyond the basic “what is” question, more questions arise for utilities and their relationships with them. What do microgrids mean for utilities? Are they the answers for climate...
    June 19, 2024
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    PNNL has designed and is testing a modular 1kW/1kWh vanadium redox flow battery with an optimized stack design.
    The projects will not only advance energy storage technologies for commercialization but also validate their cost and performance in the field .
    May 17, 2024