I recently chaired a task force under IEEE Subcommittee 15.11 (overhead lines) to revise Standard 738, IEEE’s standard for calculating the current-temperature relationship of bare overhead conductors.

The 60-kV line that was part of the unmanned aerial vehicle line inspection pilot project runs above these trees. EDP Distribuição, the largest distribution utility in Portugal has a large ...

A new paper, scheduled for release at the 2015 IEEE IAS Electrical Safety Workshop examines the occupations most at-risk for fatal overhead power line incidents. Some of the occupations associated ...

FORT RUCKER, Ala. (Oct. 17, 2016) - Overhead power lines are so common that we practically don't see them when we look down a road or walk around a building. Birds sit on them and pairs of shoes hang ...

Replacing overhead lines, the task force found, would take a quarter century and $41 billion, increasing average residential customer bills by 125%. Though less likely to fail in a snowstorm, routine ...

SSEN Transmission has published Reports on Consultations for the proposed new 400kV overhead line between Beauly, Blackhillock, New Deer and Peterhead, which includes four new substations along its ...