Power lines and wildfires: Experts say communities can be better protected, at a high cost
No official causes yet for LA fires, but utilities have a deadly history of sparking blazes. Cut the power and bury the lines ...
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The Grid Transformation Forum | Embracing Immediate Solutions to an Aging Electrical Grid
AJ Hall with AES and Jonathan Marmillo with LineVision share a case study on the role Grid Enhancing Technologies – ...
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Nevada utility teams up with LineVision to deploy dynamic line ratings
NV Energy will deploy 29 LineVision sensors across 90 miles of transmission lines, including two 120 kV lines extending from ...
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Vanco Announces the Next Generation of Networked Video
EVO-IP 2.0 expands on an award-winning foundation with VLAN-free setup, fiber transmission, and KVM support.
The Portland Mercury10h
“A Dangerous Precedent”: PGE Faces Major Backlash for Forest Park Utility Proposal
Portland’s Forest Park is one of the city’s most treasured natural features, and among the largest urban forests in the ...
Searing city report recommends denial of PGE’s Forest Park transmission proposal
A Portland General Electric proposal to upgrade existing transmission lines in Forest Park would cut down too many trees, harm local efforts to combat climate change and fails to adequately consider ...
EDN23d
As edge speeds increase, wires become transmission lines
What differentiates a pair of wires from a transmission line? The length of the interconnection and the ... Most waves travel through media, such as earth, air, water, and steel, without actually ...
R Street Institute2dOpinion
Loophole Allows Monopoly Utilities to Charge Electric Customers with Minimal Regulatory Oversight. Consumers Want FERC to Fix It.
Electric bills have been rising, and for most Americans, the largest driver is the regulated “wires” part of the industry—the ...
The Washington Post21d
Did power lines help start the L.A. fires? What we know.
When winds hit wooden poles hard, they can cause them to snap or fall, or knock down these wires. When those are ... The utility has a 220 kilovolt transmission line there that powers much of ...
Los Angeles Times16d
Regulators criticized Edison’s wildfire safety actions months before deadly Eaton fire
When a tree or wind damages or breaks an electric line, crews use splices, which are steel sleeves, to reconnect and repair the line. If there is a problem with the splice, the transmission line ...
Investopedia6d
What Is Broadband, and How Does It Work?
Common mediums of transmission ... subscriber line (DSL), cable modem, fiber, wireless, satellite, and broadband over power lines (BPL). DSL transmits data over copper wires that already exist ...