Since 1994, Sargent & Lundy's senior engineers have been conducting transmission line and substation engineering courses for engineers and designers from domestic and international utilities.

Modern transmission line projects face several challenges with different priorities than projects in the past. There is now more emphasis on reducing environmental impacts, producing aesthetically ...

The 35-mile project marks the debut of BOLD (Breakthrough Overhead Line Design), an innovative low-profile double-circuit transmission line system designed to maximize power delivery capacity while ...

Overhead transmission lines form the arterial network of modern power systems, connecting generation sites to load centres across diverse terrains and climates. Optimisation of their design and ...

The need to integrate renewable energy resources, and prepare for increased demand for power as electrification takes hold in transportation and other sectors, creates challenges for an aging grid.

The power grid is a complicated beast, regardless of where you live. Power plants have to send energy to all of their clients at a constant frequency and voltage (regardless of the demand at any one ...

Building transmission lines in the U.S. is like herding cats. All of the stakeholders in the construction of a new line — utility companies, regulators, landowners — have to come to an agreement, and ...

The U.S. East Coast is an ideal location to capture this power, but there’s a problem: getting electricity from ocean wind farms to the cities and towns that need it. The U.S. Department of Energy and ...

Transmission lines Searchlight, Nevada, March by U.S. National Archives is licensed under CC-CC0 1.0 The massive Greenlink West Transmission Project in Nevada got the final green light this week by ...