Throughout the twentieth century electricity became arguably the most important commodity provided to the home and industry and now interacts with almost every aspect of our lifestyle. Distribution ...

In the early part of his career in the mid 80s, Asim Haldar developed an interest in ice accretion on cables and the design of lines for extreme ice loads. So he became involved in ice accretion ...

One of the things that has intrigued me about the evolution of CAD software, has been the development of specialized software over the years. When I first got into the CAD field, there were already a ...

The International Council on Large Electric Systems (CIGRE) and Korea Electric Power Corp. (KEPCO) jointly hosted the 2017 International Tower Design Award ceremony in Seoul, South Korea. Held during ...

As urban power grid loads keep rising, clustered multi-circuit laying of 110 kV XLPE cables has become prevalent. Thermal interaction between adjacent cable circuits ...

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 design of overhead line tower or substation gantry structure foundations must be such as to safely sustain and transmit to the ground the combined dead load, imposed load and wind load in such a ...

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 ...