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    Photo courtesy of Hawaiian Electric.
    A breakout group at Hawaiian Electric’s Wildfire Safety Symposium in April 2024 discusses collective actions for wildfire safety during day 2 of the symposium on Hawaiʻi Island.
    Photo courtesy of Dominion.
    Scaling the Grid for Explosive Load Growth
    Photo Courtesy of Hitachi Energy.
    Rather than being parked and taking up valuable footprint at one of its facilities, the mobile transformer remains securely housed at a Hitachi Energy facility.
    Photo by E.ON.
    While covered conductors were developed to protect power continuity for customers during Nordic storms, it also can be used for other applications. For example, it is being used in Australia to cut wildfire risk.
    Photo courtesy of Southern Co.
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    Cleco Power
    The new EV charging stations at the Maritime Museum.

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    Photo by Matthew Vinson, Dominion Energy.
    A view back down Mt. Storm. The 5C lattice steel towers were built to withstand the region’s intense weather conditions.
    Feb. 3, 2025
    The utility overcame numerous challenges while rebuilding its Mt. Storm to Valley line in extreme mountainous terrain.
    March 25, 2024
    The utility aims to boost reliability and resiliency by focusing on vegetation management, automation and substation modernization.
    Photo by Ameren Illinois.
    March 5, 2024
    Policy changes in Illinois have spurred a surge in Ameren Illinois’ distributed energy resource interconnections, prompting the need for a process.
    Photo courtesy of Con Edison.
    Nov. 17, 2023
    Consolidated Edison considers options for building new underground transmission lines that will carry increasing amounts of renewable energy to customer in New York City.
    Courtesy of SMECO
    Pole base setting with line energized.
    Sept. 22, 2023
    Creating new standard construction practices to meet critical customer needs.

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    Photo by Georgia Power Transmission Co.
    Georgia Power Transmission Co. lines run across terrain that is sometimes mountainous, hilly, forested, crowded and urban or remote and rural.
    Photo courtesy of Georgia Power.
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    Photo by Heimdall Power.
    May 1, 2024
    By installing sensors to perform dynamic line ratings, the utility’s transmission line capacity improved more than 25%, nearly 70% of the time.
    The Ameren Illinois Roxford substation. The infrastructure project included substation upgrades and new transmission structures. Photo by Ameren.
    April 8, 2024
    Ameren Transmission works with partner to replace a transmission tower and upgrade a substation, with a positive impact on the Diverse Supplier Program along the way.
    (Left) Enclosure for FCCP device. BGE started piloting this solution in August 2022 at a substation with only one dc supply. (Right) A newly installed Multitel box. The FCCP device has a clamp-on current transformer (CT) that can be installed on one wire of the battery dc supply charger cable. Photos courtesy of Baltimore Gas & Electric.
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    July 27, 2023
    BGE reviews several alternatives for a battery open-circuit monitoring device to protect from a dc supply single point of failure.
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    July 10, 2023
    In part two of this two-part article series, Duke Energy shares how its WorkPASS program has transformed the way it executes vegetation management work.