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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.
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 ...
Navigating the Complexities Involved with NERC | T&D World
WEBJan 3, 2024 · Navigating the Complexities Involved with NERC. Learn the requirements, and comply, to avoid getting fined and/or sanctioned and, most importantly, keep the grid safe, secure and reliable. NERC is an acronym that stands for the North American Electric Reliability Corporation, and if you work in the electric utility industry in the contiguous 48 ...
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.
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.
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 ...
LUMA Announces Timeline for Service Restoration for Customers …
WEBAug 16, 2024 · After Tropical Storm Ernesto recently brought heavy rain and strong winds to Puerto Rico, LUMA announced that its round-the-clock efforts have restored power to 257,000 customers over the last 24 hours.
Overhead or Underground Transmission? That is (Still) the Question
WEBFeb 24, 2022 · Robert G. Olsen, Jon T. Leman. For years, the electric utility industry has been questioning whether to use overhead or underground systems for transmission of power using high-voltage transmission lines. Issues driving this discussion range from aesthetics to audible noise and electromagnetic field exposure, to …