American Transmission Co. has asked state regulators for permission to build a power line in Door County to boost reliability in the northern part of the peninsula. more...
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A proposed transmission line exists only on paper, but it's already generating plenty of heat in Clark County. more...
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ABB, the leading power and automation technology group, today celebrates the 10th anniversary of the world's first commercial HVDC Light installation, a technological innovation that has opened up new possibilities in power transmission. more...
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Chino Hills officials will argue against a Southern California Edison plan to expand a high voltage power line through the city Friday during a hearing with state public utility commissioners in San Francisco. more...
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The two utilities seeking to build a transmission line over La Veta Pass from the San Luis Valley defended the proposal Friday against criticisms that it was too costly and unnecessary. more...
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Save our Scenic Hill Country Environment held a meeting last week in Fredericksburg featuring former Texas Public Utility Chairman Max Yzaguirre, who spoke about current LCRA plans to build transmission lines throughout the Hill Country. more...
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AREVA’s Transmission and Distribution
(T&D) division and Bruker Energy & Supercon Technologies (BEST) have successfully designed, built
and tested a single module of a 13 MVA (2000 A, 6.4 kV) single-phase, shielded-type inductive
superconducting fault current limiter (SFCL) at the AREVA T&D Technology Centre in Stafford, UK. more...
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Siemens Energy has received an order from Wellington-based Transpower New Zealand Limited, the national grid operator, to modernize and increase the capacity of the existing high-voltage direct-current (HVDC) link between the country’s North and South Island. more...
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ABB, the leading power and automation technology group, has won an order worth $120 million from the Saudi Electricity Company to provide power to Saudi Arabia's first university for women, the Princess Nourah bint Abdulrahman University. more...
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Ocean Power Technologies, Inc. (Nasdaq: OPTT and London Stock Exchange AIM: OPT) ("OPT" or the "Company") announces the successful completion of trials of its Underwater Substation Pod ("USP") product in Spain. The USP, based on the Company's proprietary design, has been developed to facilitate the collection, networking and transforming of power and data generated by up to ten of its PowerBuoys for transmission to a shore-based electricity grid by one subsea power cable. It has been built as an open platform, and can therefore provide "plug and play" connectivity for any offshore energy device linked to it. more...
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AREVA’s Transmission and Distribution division (T&D) in the United States has
signed an agreement to be the key supplier of single-phase autotransformers to
Northeast Utilities (NU) through to 2014. more...
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Hitachi America, Ltd. today announced that it has introduced amorphous metal distribution transformers in the United States. Hitachi has actively promoted amorphous metal distribution transformers in Asia for over 20 years and it has over 90% market share for amorphous metal distribution transformers in Japan. more...
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AEP Ohio, a unit of American Electric Power (NYSE:AEP), has selected PCS UtiliData’s AdaptiVolt™ Volt/Var Optimization system for a demand reduction project in northeast central Ohio as part of the company’s recently announced AEP Ohio gridSMARTSM Demonstration Project. more...
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LCRA Transmission Services Corporation (LCRA TSC) today filed with the Public Utility Commission of Texas (PUC) an application to build a new 345-kilovolt (kV) transmission line in Gillespie, Llano, San Saba, Burnet, and Lampasas counties. more...
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Composite Technology Corporation (CTC) (OTCBB: CPTC) is pleased to announce a new order for ACCC(TM) conductor for its subsidiary CTC Cable Corporation. more...
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