This session will describe a reliability-based design approach to hardening the components (structures, foundations, wire systems, insulators and hardware) of transmission lines for optimizing ...

Nguyen Tri Phuong, a materials science professor at Canada's Universite du Quebec a Trois-Rivieres (UQTR), has received US$1.05 million to develop next-generation rubber compounds designed to extend ...

To a broadcaster, the health of the transmission line, from the transmitter through the antenna, is a prime concern. The line, the antenna, combiners and other associated components carry high RF ...

LineScout, developed by Hydro-Québec’s Research Institute, is a robot used on power lines that has the capacity to cross obstacles. The expected increase in live-line work technologies to maintain, ...

Duke Energy held an open house to inform the public about its plans to build 4 new major powerlines through parts of West ...

The developer of a 107.5-mile, 500-kilovolt transmission line today announced a preferred route that goes through parts of several West Virginia counties. The proposed route for the MidAtlantic ...

Developers of the Grain Belt Express transmission line have asked the federal government to narrow a 780-mile route energy officials proposed as a transmission corridor of “national interest.” The ...