On a cloudy day in mid-July, a crew of technicians carried a shiny metal orb, about the size and weight of a kid’s bowling ball, under a 110-kilovolt transmission line running near Hamburg, Germany.

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During the past 15 years or so, there has been a radical transformation in the way electrical energy has been generated to establish a more sustainable future for the world. However, while wind ...

Northwest U.S. utility Puget Sound Energy (PSE) has joined with Norway-headquartered Heimdall Power on a dynamic line rating (DLR) pilot project in Washington state. The companies on October 22 said ...

Transmission congestion currently affects approximately 70% of the U.S. grid. Bottlenecks delay the interconnection of cost-effective clean energy sources, limit the transfer of electricity between ...

Albert Einstein said, “A man should look for what is, and not for what he thinks should be.” While the quote referenced the disposal of prejudices in the context of the scientific process, the same ...

With Irish electricity prices soaring, can Dynamic Line Rating be deployed quickly to get more renewable energy on the system and help protect hard-pressed consumers? Dynamic Line Rating enables ...