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Climate Crisis Threatens Canada’s Ice Roads for Indigenous Communities
The warming climate is rapidly transforming the landscape of northern Canada, particularly for Indigenous communities who rely on ice roads for critical supplies. These roads,…
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Texas Wind Power: Steady Prices Amidst Fluctuations
This stability in the face of variable wind conditions highlights the resilience and adaptability of Texas's energy infrastructure and market dynamics.
Wind Power and Price…
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Sunnova and OpenSolar Partner to Boost AI-Driven Solar Designs
Sunnova, a prominent player in the residential and commercial solar industry, has recently announced a game-changing partnership with OpenSolar, a software company that provides a…
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SouthCoast Wind Project Faces Third Delay Amid Uncertainty
The SouthCoast Wind project, a major offshore wind initiative set to deliver clean energy to the New England grid, has encountered significant delays as contract…
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Battery Fires Pose Minor Environmental Risks, ACP Report Finds
Battery fires in large-scale energy storage systems (BESS) have raised concerns, but a recent review by the American Clean Power Association (ACP) found that such…
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Louisiana Industries Push for Faster Renewable Energy Transition
Louisiana, known for its robust oil and gas industry, is experiencing a significant shift as some of its largest industries express frustration over delays in…
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Trump’s Offshore Wind Energy Freeze: States at Risk
The U.S. offshore wind energy industry, which has been making significant strides in recent years, is now facing an uncertain future. Following a January 2025…
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Climate Change Threatens Canadian Wildlife and Winter Habitats
As climate change accelerates, its effects on wildlife across the globe are becoming increasingly evident. In Canada, one of the countries most affected by warming…
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The Mentoring Gap: How the Loss of Informal Knowledge Is Affecting Safety
For much of the trade’s history, the most important safety lessons in line work were…
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Grounding Assumptions: Where Line Crews Still Get Hurt Despite “Doing It Right”
Why Grounding Remains a Source of Serious Injury
Grounding is one of the most emphasized…
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The Near-Miss Problem: Why Utilities Collect Data but Crews Do Not Trust It
The Promise of Learning Before Someone Gets Hurt
Near-miss reporting is widely promoted as a…
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Human Factors on the Line: Fatigue, Complacency, and Decision Making at Height
How Real Incidents Actually Take Shape
Most serious line incidents do not begin with a…
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The Hidden Risk Shift: Why Line Work Is Getting More Dangerous Even as Equipment Improves
The Paradox Facing Modern Line Work
By most measurable standards, line work should be safer…
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AI at the Substation Edge: Digital Twins and Predictive Maintenance for Transformers and Switchgear
From Data Collection to Insight
Modern substations generate vast amounts of data—temperatures, gas levels, vibrations,…
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Hardening the Power Grid
How to improve reliability by hardening the power grid
BY BO ZENG, WEI YUAN & LONG ZHAO, University of South Florida
North America relies heavily…
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Aging Infrastructure and Grid Modernization
Asset and risk management for electric utilities
BY SIRI VARADAN, UISOL, & SERGE VANASSE, Clevest
Aging transmission and distribution (T&D) infrastructure is a critical issue…
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Insulators' ageing in North America - How about testing them?
Sediver has established in the USA an assembly factory for glass insulators in 2017 but also, and perhaps more interesting for some engineers, a laboratory…
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Vibration and Noise Control in T&D
It is very often that “just putting some rubber” to isolate structures creates an inefficient or even a vibration isolation problem, without taking into account…
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A Closer Look into the True Cost of Replacing Electrical Switchgear
During my switchgear modernization presentations all over the US, I am constantly reminded of the concerns customers face with their aging electrical infrastructure. For the…
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