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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 ...
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 …
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.
Asplundh Tree Expert, LLC | T&D World
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 …
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.
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.
High-Voltage Transformer Bushing Assessment Is Critical
Jul 21, 2020 · Moisture is an enemy to bushing. Moisture is a bushing's worst enemy. As a bushing ages, gaskets lose their ability to seal, thereby paving the most common way for moisture to enter the bushing.
Linemen: Faces of the Future - T&D World
Aug 30, 2017 · Born to Be a Lineman. Brandon Branch, a third-generation apprentice lineman for PG&E, grew up in the industry. He always looked up to his late grandfather, who worked as a lineman for PG&E for nearly 40 years, and his father, who has served as a …