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    Typically 35 kV to 1.4 kV, distribution systems take power from the bulk system to deliver to individual customers via overhead lines.

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    Transmission Reliability

    Success Down South: Entergy Mississippi's Reliability Wins

    July 16, 2024
    The utility is delivering power more reliably than in the past, and simultaneously investing in an ever stronger grid.
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    Transmission Reliability

    Planning for the Extreme

    June 3, 2024
    Con Edison’s resilience plan is meant to prevent and mitigate outages, protect public safety, and reduce customer impacts and inconvenience.
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    Podcasts

    New Line Life Podcast: ICYMI: Mutual Aid Without a Storm

    Feb. 23, 2024
    This audio story showcases an article about the Light Up Navajo project from the 2023 T&D World Lineworker Supplement.
    Photo by NorthWestern Energy.
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    Overhead Transmission

    In Photos: Keeping Birds and the Power Grid Safe from One Another

    Dec. 15, 2023
    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...
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    Overhead Distribution

    NESC Progresses Power Grid Resiliency

    Dec. 12, 2023
    The NESC focuses on standards that help to increase worker safety while improving power grid resiliency in overhead utility pole networks.

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    Resources

    Wildfire Risk Mitigation

    Feb. 16, 2022
    Learn about the tools and practices that minimize power equipment caused fires.
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    Distributed Energy Resources

    Common Distribution System Upgrades Part II

    Aug. 5, 2024
    In part II of this series on the customer DER interconnection process, Ameren Illinois looks at reverse power flow.
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    Overhead Distribution

    New York Governor and Senator Gillibrand Announce $405 Million Grant for Long Island Electric Grid

    Aug. 5, 2024
    The increased funding will help LIPA strengthen 166 overhead circuits covering approximately 1,376 miles of its power distribution network following Tropical Storm Isaias.
    Photo by G&W Electric.
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    Wildfire

    Strategies to Mitigate Wildfire Risk

    July 29, 2024
    By combining equipment upgrades, like current limiting protectors, with a distribution automation system, utilities can mitigate risk.
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    Overhead Distribution

    Smart Grid Enhancements Underway on Electric System in Eastern Pennsylvania

    July 25, 2024
    FirstEnergy Pennsylvania Electric Company is installing 53 automated switching devices with supervisory control and data acquisition technology at crucial spots on overhead power...