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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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    Overhead Distribution

    Eversource Requests Approval to Strengthen Reliability and Resiliency

    June 19, 2024
    Company files distribution rate review request with regulators; also plans to file new electric supply rate with the PUC on June 13.
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    Transmission Reliability

    TVA, Partners Seek $350 Million in DOE Grants to Strengthen Grid

    June 17, 2024
    The grants will help construct an inter-regional 800 MW transmission line, increase grid capacity by about 5,500 MW, and reveal more than 6 GW of solar in TVA's interconnection...
    Duke Energy
    Overhead Distribution

    Duke Energy Prepares to Respond and Restore Power Faster Before 2024 Hurricane Season

    June 7, 2024
    The company has completed a multi-year modernization project to construct seven new grid control centers across its six-state service area.
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    Overhead Distribution

    FirstEnergy’s Ohio Utilities File Request To Review Base Electric Rates

    June 4, 2024
    The rate review has proposed investments in the distribution system, storm restoration work and a bill assistance initiative aimed towards customers' requirements.