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    Foundations in the Mountains

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    Lineworker Tim Hanna wishes he would have started earlier.
    June 15, 2023
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    Opinion
    No matter how much we would like for it to be different, natural gas and nuclear baseload generation will for many more years be the bridge.
    June 9, 2023
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    Remote-sensing program digital model. The programs covered here enabled Duke Energy to migrate away from manual processes and tools, such as spreadsheets, to more advanced processes that leverage technology.
    In part one of this two-part series, Duke Energy shares how a remote-sensing program has transformed the way it manages vegetation.
    June 5, 2023
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    An electric vehicle’s charge readout. DC fast-chargers are capable of putting more stress on transformers and the greater the power grid than Level 1 chargers that take hours to bring a vehicle to full charge.
    Could rapid EV adoption break the grid? Industry voices make predictions (and new technologies) as utilities brace for impact.
    June 1, 2023
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    A landslide at an isolated location in Virginia’s Blue Ridge Mountains provided an opportunity to test a combination micropile and above-ground grillage assembly.
    Dominion Energy combines micropiles and an above-ground grillage for a compact pole base in mountainous terrain.
    May 31, 2023
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    Battery storage may have started off as backup power, but it hasn’t stayed that way.
    It’s getting harder to find any portion of the power grid that is not using AI.
    May 30, 2023
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    The standardization issues can be hard to handle. At the last counting there were over nine different connector types serving several power levels and voltage types.
    May 25, 2023
    Duke Energy's Mount Holly project.
    Microgrids are becoming more complex by incorporating new fuels and combinations of resources that will allow them to better serve current and future customers, and it's reflected...
    May 24, 2023