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Dominion's New Online Map Makes it Easier to Track Power …
WEBSep 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.
Texas’ Big Freeze: The 2021 Power Crisis and the Lessons Learned …
WEBJan 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 ...
WEBMay 1, 2020 · This article discusses eight categories of underground power cable components and/or design principles to harden the grid, therefore improving natural disaster resilience. 1. Water-blocking Components. Water contains oxidizing agents, which trigger the corrosion of metallic shields and conductors. As a result, a “triple-water protection ...
Strategic Undergrounding from the Perspective of Cable …
WEBOct 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.
Six Utilities Share Their Perspectives on Insulators | T&D World
WEBApr 1, 2010 · Six Utilities Share Their Perspectives on Insulators. April 1, 2010. Trends in the changing landscape of high-voltage insulators are revealed through utility interviews. The high-voltage transmission system in North America is the result of planning and execution initiated soon after World War II. Ambitious goals, sound engineering and the ...
What is Horizontal Drilling, and Why is it Important? - T&D World
WEBMay 26, 2022 · Horizontal directional drilling (HDD) is a relatively new telecommunications and utility installation technology. It allows for greater precision and flexibility in the placement. In addition, it eliminates the necessity of costly digging and the need for large crews, road closures, and other complications associated with traditional digging ...
Asplundh Tree Expert, LLC | T&D World
WEBJan 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 other municipal and government agencies.
Transformative Times: Update on the U.S. Transformer Supply Chain
WEBJul 12, 2022 · According to the Energy Department ’ s Office of Electricity, over 90 percent of the electricity consumed in the U.S. passes through a large power transformer. Before a pandemic sent shudders through global supply chains, the U.S. was 82% reliant upon imports to meet its need for large transformers, according to a …
Potomac Edison Completes Service Reliability Projects
WEBFeb 15, 2023 · Potomac Edison, a subsidiary of FirstEnergy Corp., invested nearly $10 million in 2022 to complete service reliability projects that will help enhance electric service and minimize the impact of power outages for thousands of customers in Maryland. The company also received approval from the Maryland Public Service Commission to …