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    Texas Digs Out: One Year After the Deadly Outage
    Photo courtesy of the authors
    This important corridor could be designated “secure and functional” and have at least one underground circuit to the microgrid.
    Dominion Energy project team explains the horizontal directional drilling process to community members before providing a tour of the drill site. Photo courtesy of Donnie Smith, GeoEngineers.
    New Michels Direct Pipe We 1 8 2022

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    A small fishing boat heads for the cannery in Wrangell, Alaska. Wrangell Island is part of the Alexander Archipelago that hugs the North American continent near the border between Alaska and the U.S. and British Columbia, Canada.
    A utility serving several isolated Alaskan communities works to repair a severed power lifeline to the mainland.
    Jan. 31, 2022
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    Round Rock north of Austin, Texas after a foot of snow fell during Winter Storm Uri. During the storm, many people were out of power for four days, with freezing temperatures persisting for six days.
    What has changed in the Lone Star State since the lethal Winter Storm Uri struck? Are recent improvements enough to keep the grid humming through a similar disaster?
    Jan. 25, 2022
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    As we stand at the precipice of a new year, there are a troika of challenging issues facing WAPA and the West: weather, markets, and infrastructure investments.
    Jan. 21, 2022
    Journeyman Lineman Rick Soto says during storm restorations, it feels great to help others in need.
    Journeyman Lineman Rick Soto says during storm restorations, it feels great to help others in need.
    Jan. 21, 2022
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    There has been a major shift in the power grid’s opinion of aggregated BTM-DERs.
    Jan. 21, 2022
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    1972 Hewlett-Packard scientific pocket calculator: HP-35.
    With all the attention focused on our infrastructure, Dynamic Line Rating technology appears to be an ideal solution for increasing the nation’s transmission capacity with little...
    Jan. 21, 2022
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    Utilities and the solution providers with which they partner are creating and applying technologies and processes that are making great strides in wildfire prevention and management...
    Jan. 19, 2022
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    Are utilities forgetting some key aspect of successful project development, or has the world changed, or both?
    Jan. 14, 2022