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Dominion's New Online Map Makes it Easier to Track Power …
Sep 23, 2015 · Dominion Virginia Power has introduced a new online interactive outage map that provides more streamlined, detailed information to enable customers to quickly report and accurately track power outages and restoration. "Next to energy, the most important thing we can provide to customers is information," said Becky Merritt, vice president of Customer Service.
What is Horizontal Drilling, and Why is it Important? - T&D World
May 26, 2022 · HDD doesn't rely on renting backhoes and other heavy equipment; hence less equipment is needed. This translates to lower expenses. Therefore, it is more cost-effective in almost every way than open-cut drilling.
Underground Cable Design Principles to Strengthen the Critical ...
May 1, 2020 · 2. “Dry-Type” Cable Designs. For critical distribution circuits located within a flood zone or installed within an extremely damp soil under a waterway, MV cables can be enhanced with extra cable components to match dry-type underground high …
Texas’ Big Freeze: The 2021 Power Crisis and the Lessons Learned …
Jan 25, 2022 · Protecting the Grid. Despite past warnings and reminders by FERC and NERC, that generating units needed to prepare for coming winters, and despite the detailed instructions the agencies sent about winterization, 49 generating units in Southwest Power Pool (15 percent, 1,944 MW of nameplate capacity), 26 in ERCOT (7 percent, 3,675 MW), and three units in Midcontinent Independent System Operator ...
A Short History: War of The Currents - T&D World
Aug 18, 2017 · There was a great deal of turmoil until the Westinghouse/Tesla AC system was selected to illuminate the 1893 Chicago World Fair. Tesla’s polyphase system of AC power generation and transmission system was about half the price of the DC system and required far less infrastructure.
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Jan 22, 2024 · For 96 years, Asplundh has provided safe and cost-effective vegetation management and infrastructure design, construction, and support solutions to investor- and cooperatively owned utilities, departments of transportation, and …
Overhead Cable Design Principles to Enhance Critical Electrical Grids
Jun 30, 2020 · 4. Track-Resistant, Abuse-Tolerant, and Crosslinked, Covered Conductors. For primary overhead distribution lines located in urban cities or dense growth tree areas, bare conductors such as ACSR, AAC (1350-H19), AAAC (6201-T81), or hard-drawn copper can all be converted to covered conductor designs.
Strategic Undergrounding from the Perspective of Cable …
Oct 4, 2021 · It is manufactured by continuously extruding a crush and impact resistant HDPE conduit over a single cable or a parallel cable assembly. CIC might contain one cable or three-phase cables, but we have seen up to 4 cable components with a spare or an added equipment grounding conductor being designed using CIC.
Cutout-Mounted Recloser - T&D World
Apr 25, 2016 · S&C Electric Co. offers service center configurability for TripSaver II Cutout-Mounted Recloser, a self-healing solution that reduces the scope and duration of power outages on lateral distribution lines. The new feature will make it easier for utilities to apply this product on their systems. TripSaver II is an economical solution for bringing self-healing capabilities to secondary overhead ...