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Paris Olympics: Balancing Sustainability with Climate Change Challenges

As the Paris Olympics approach, organizers are emphasizing sustainability amid growing concerns about the impacts of climate change on sports. The 2024 Summer Games aim to set a new standard for eco-friendly events, but the challenge of balancing environmental goals with the practical realities of extreme weather is proving formidable.

Paris has made sustainability a cornerstone of its Olympic preparations, striving to minimize the environmental footprint of the Games. The city’s approach includes using existing...

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Global Warming's Heat Threatens Youth

Global warming is not only a distant concern for the future but a pressing reality today, especially for the younger generations. As climate change intensifies, the planet’s rising temperatures are posing increasingly deadly risks, particularly to the world’s youth. Young people, from...

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Facing Wildfire? Choose Toughened Glass Insulators

Insulators under fire, what are we talking about?

  • A line directly in the fire is considered as lost
  • A line near the heat of a fire can be saved
  • What is the condition of insulators on a line nearby a fire?

Reliability of insulators during or after a fire is a key consideration for T&D line design or refurbishment.
One must evaluate the risk of a line drop in the proximity of a fire as well as the possibility for a catastrophic failure afterwards resulting from a degraded insulator.

Our study on a comparison of insulators electromechanical strength after heat exposures shows

Based on “INSULATORS UNDER FIRE” – GEORGE JM / PRAT S – EDM 2019, International conference on overhead lines, Design, Construction, Inspection & Maintenance, Mar. 25-28 2019, Fort Collins, Colorado, USA / Reliability Behaviour.

For porcelain and composite insulators

During an extreme heat exposure, there will be no...

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Outage Management Toolbox

Nine capabilities required for an effective OMS system BY MICHEL GILLES, Intergraph Increasing or maintaining power reliability is the fundamental charter for utility companies. For electric utilities to meet customer expectations and adhere to government regulations, they require an efficient way...

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FERC Complaint Targets Duke, PJM Transmission Planning

A coalition of large energy consumers and ratepayer advocates has filed a complaint with the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC), urging the agency to prohibit transmission owners from independently planning "local" transmission projects exceeding 100 kilovolts (kV). The coalition argues...

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