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    The Ameren Illinois Roxford substation. The infrastructure project included substation upgrades and new transmission structures. Photo by Ameren.

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    FirstEnergy’s American Transmission Systems Upgrades Two 138 kV Power Lines

    April 3, 2024
    The project is anticipated to boost the regional transmission system and improve service reliability for nearly 5,000 customers of FirstEnergy’s The Illuminating Company.
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    Texas’ Long Road to Reliability

    April 1, 2024
    Texas has emerged from two winter storms in the three years since Uri with no major issues, but recommended reliability plans are still not fully implemented.
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    Transmission Reliability

    EstLink 2 Subsea Transmission Repair Faces Problems Due to Fault Location

    March 18, 2024
    There are signs of mechanical damage in the transition joint of the submarine and land cable
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    DOE Office to Look into AI Grid Security, Clean Energy Use Cases

    March 13, 2024
    The DOE’s Office of Critical and Emerging Technologies wants to collect comments and write a public report on how artificial intelligence might help deliver cleaner, more secure...
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    EEI, U.S. Air Force to Plan Electricity Resilience Jointly

    March 12, 2024
    The MOU between the two organizations will explore best practices for joint energy resilience planning between DAF installations and EEI member companies
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    PG&E To Raise About $1 Billion For Transmission Through Leases To Citizens Energy

    March 26, 2024
    Citizens aims to contribute majority of its profits from the program to clean, reliable and affordable energy investments in low-income and disadvantaged communities across PG...
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    Collaboration is Key for Expanding Transmission Capacity

    March 22, 2024
    Policymakers should take care to foster, rather than discourage or prevent, effective collaboration in transmission development.
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    Aerial Transmission Adopts Covered Conductor Technology

    March 21, 2024
    Since the first electric power transmission line was built in 1889, essentially the same technology has been used for construction: bare wire (ACSR, AAAC, AAC, etc.), strung on...
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    National Assembly Of South Africa Passes Electricity Regulation Amendment Bill

    March 20, 2024
    The bill is meant to 'radically transform the structure of the electricity sector and have a positive impact on future generations.'