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Live Line Maintenance

Live line maintenance: ensure safety with proper fiberglass care and maintenance BY MATT DELL, Hi-Line Utility and Supply The speed of light and the speed in which electricity travels is 186,282 miles per second. When utility workers are faced against stats like that, there is no moving out of the...


The Full Cost of Electricity (FCe-)

The generation of electric power and the infrastructure that delivers it is in the midst of dramatic and rapid change. Declining renewable energy costs, stringent emissions standards, low-price natural gas, competitive electricity markets, and a host of technological innovations have forever...

Enhance Utlity Fleet Tools & Best Practices

Fleet managers working at electric utilities know that for crews to be successful on any jobsite, they need to have access to tools that will help them work safer, smarter, more efficiently and more profitably. In the electric utility industry, a utility truck, whether an aerial device, such as a...

Infrastructure & Technologies

Power Grid Congestion

Unclogging the arteries of North America’s power grid BY DAVE BRYANT, CTC Global Corporation Without access to affordable and reliable electricity, no society in today’s world can possibly flourish. Canada and the U.S. rely heavily on electricity to pump water to grow crops,...

Infrastructure & Technologies

Transmission Towers in Demand

Study shows growth from now to 2020 Aging infrastructure and increased demand for power has amplified the demand for transmission towers. In their latest report ,“The Global Market for Electricity Towers and Poles 2014 to 2020”, StatPlan Energy, specialists in the electricity sector,...

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Lightning Discoveries & Technologies

How this phenomenon affects electric utilities

BY JIM SIEBERT, FOX 26 Chief Meteorologist

Advances in technology are helping scientists understand lightning in ways that were not possible a few years ago. Beforehand, meteorologists primarily studied lightning, focusing most of their efforts on explaining why and how this phenomenon occurs. However, geologists and other earth scientists have joined in the study of unraveling lightning mysteries. A new understanding of why lightning strikes locations is starting to...

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