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.

Konstantin Papailiou considers the worldwide “overhead lines society” to be like a big family. If that is the case, Papailiou would be the father. He is chairman of the CIGRE Study Committee “Overhead ...

Sweden has just opened its first “eHighway,” a 1.2 mile stretch of public road that has been equipped with overhead power lines. The eHighway is part of a two-year trial from Siemens and Scania to ...

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 ...

Manhattan learned, early on, that public utilities such as electricity, telegraph and telephone lines were a mixed blessing. In 1885, a mile of nighttime Broadway was illuminated by arc lights -- ...

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 ...

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 ...