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.
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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.
Engineering a 500-kV Underground System - T&D World
WEBApr 28, 2017 · Ian Grant. The 500-kV Tehachapi Renewable Transmission project in Southern California, U.S., will deliver renewable energy from Kern County, south through Los Angeles County and then east to the city of Ontario in San Bernardino County, a distance of more than 170 miles (274 km). The project, which replaced many of Southern California Edison ...
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 ...
Tallapoosa River Electric Cooperative Deploys 3-GIS Network Express
WEBMay 26, 2011 · Tallapoosa River Electric Cooperative (TREC) is migrating from legacy CAD to enterprise GIS using 3-GIS’s geospatial asset manager Network Express. TREC services an extended rural network; from high on Cheaha Mountain down to Opelika and Auburn. Leveraging Esri’s ArcGIS Server and ArcGIS Desktop, Network Express provides fast …
The Impact of Severe Weather on Utilities - T&D World
WEBSep 15, 2021 · The Impact of Severe Weather on Utilities. Sept. 15, 2021. As power outages from weather-related events increase, utilities must figure out how to minimize and prevent service interruptions. Extreme temperatures, fires, flash floods, and tropical storms—weather challenges are playing out in different ways across the U.S. for utilities.
Grid-Forming And The Next-Gen Grid - T&D World
WEBFeb 8, 2022 · The next-gen of inverter-based BESS is here and just in time considering what’s happening. The penetration of wind, solar, and BESS resources is increasing and causing concern by those responsible for a stable grid. When these three resources exceed 60% or more of the online generation capacity operators get nervous.
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 …
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 ...
Ten West Link Transmission Line Construction Kicks Off
WEBJan 20, 2023 · The capacity of Ten West Link will become part of the grid, managed by the CAISO. The U.S. Department of the Interior approved the project’s construction in July 2022, after determining it would lower costs for customers. The Ten West Link Transmission Line is an infrastructure project covered under Title 41 of the FAST Act (FAST-41).