Sentences with phrase «high voltage lines»

The attorney's at Busby, Bell & Biggs have been successful in representing construction workers, maintenance personnel, cable pullers and miners, and others who suffered electrical burns and injuries as a result of contact with high voltage lines.

Police say those responsible trespassed onto the site and put debris into the hydraulic lines of a Spider Plow boring machine, causing thousands of dollar damage to the specialized equipment used for burying cables and high voltage lines.

Political pressure can be used to force regulated transmission companies to agree to install new high voltage lines.

Some 40 % of transmission lines worldwide need to be replaced with Ultra High Voltage lines.

The high voltage line is due to be operational in 2016.

Not exact matches

Millions of Puerto Ricans are again without power after a high - voltage transmission line that had been repaired by Whitefish Energy, a Montana contractor now facing an FBI investigation, failed again Wednesday.

This network includes 100 bulk supply substations and more than 13,000 kilometres of high - voltage transmission lines and cables.

It has grown to a $ 2.4 billion operation with 17 power plants and at least 1,400 miles of high - voltage transmission lines across New York.

The power authority's service provider, PSEG Long Island, caused an uproar in East Hampton when it began installing a six - mile - long high - voltage transmission line between East Hampton Village and Amagansett, without, according to local officials, fully informing them of what was planned.

East Hampton Town has joined a lawsuit brought by a citizens group in 2014 against the Long Island Power Authority and PSEG - Long Island over the installation of high - voltage transmission lines and poles along a six - mile route from East Hampton Village to an Amagansett substation.

The company that owns the plant said a disturbance on the non-nuclear side of the plant was related to a high voltage transmission line.

CARI consists of seven counties and five citizen groups that have joined together to oppose the 190 mile NYRI High Voltage DC Transmission Line.

PSEG Long Island has filed a state application for work on a new high - voltage power line to run 7.3 miles underground between Uniondale and Lynbrook to reduce outages in a region fed by two antiquated cables.

The installation of new, taller poles and high - voltage lines on residential streets along the six - mile route caused an outcry from residents concerned about safety and aesthetics and prompted a discussion about installing buried rather than overhead lines.

A contractor struck a high - voltage line while working on a Civic Center project this morning, knocking out power.

The Public Service Commission under the direction of Governor Andrew Cuomo is expected to decide Thursday whether high - voltage power towers will be put up on a route taking transmission lines through the Hudson Valley.

The Hudson Valley Smart Energy Coalition claims proposed high - voltage power lines would impart major environmental and visual impacts on many natural and some historic sites.

On Earth, the brightest auroras (the high - altitude glows often called the northern and southern lights) are generated when electrons in outer space near Earth are accelerated by large electrical potentials, or voltages, along the lines in our planet's magnetic field and slam into gas molecules in the upper atmosphere above polar regions.

In past studies, scientists using simple 1D models of Earth would have found that 16 high - voltage electrical transmission lines were disturbed in the mid-Atlantic region during the storm, resulting in the blackout.

Plenty of power, not enough lines To make this happen, Germany needs nearly 1,000 miles of new high - voltage power lines in the coming years, according to plans approved by the federal government.

Consumer Protection Minister Ilse Aigner is worried about the slow pace of expansion of the country's high - voltage lines needed to transport offshore wind energy from the North Sea to industrial areas in the south of Germany.

Upgrading to high - voltage transmission lines will greatly increase the efficiency of the grid.

The Grid We Have When electricity leaves a power plant today, it is shuttled from place to place over high - voltage lines, those cables on steel pylons that cut across landscapes and run virtually contiguously from coast to coast.

The lower map shows existing high - voltage lines capable of transporting wind - generated power in red; lines needed to meet the 2030 goal for renewable energy, according to the American Electric Power / American Wind Energy Association plan, are shown in green.

Offshore wind turbines will line the Atlantic coast; vast solar arrays will cover swaths of the southwestern desert; transmission towers will cradle high - voltage direct current lines and take electricity from the windy Great Plains to the populated coasts.

High - voltage lines act as antennae, attracting geomagnetic disturbances from the sun, and the larger and longer the lines, the greater the effect.

The total length of U.S. high - voltage lines has increased nearly tenfold since the 1960s, Kappenman reported.

The next peak cycle of sunspot activity is predicted for 2012 - 2014, bringing with it a greater risk of large geomagnetic storms that can generate powerful rogue currents in transmission lines, potentially damaging or destroying the large transformers that manage power flow over high - voltage networks.

There is another interesting parallel, too, which is again if you sort of think of this in your mind geologically or geographically, I should say — so you've got these big farms in the Southwest; if you got these high - voltage, direct - current, sort of trunk line feeding other parts of the country with the power, what do you do with it there?

But a study out today suggests that the United States could, at least in theory, use new high - voltage power lines to move renewable power across the nation, and essentially eliminate the need to add new storage capacity.

MacDonald wondered whether the U.S. grid might be able to overcome intermittency problems if it added high - voltage, direct - current (HVDC) transmission lines — which suffer less energy loss than do traditional alternating - current transmission lines — to connect regional grids, so that power could be moved to where it was needed.

However, the German Solar Industry Federation rejects DENA's concerns, claiming that extra solar energy takes the pressure off high - voltage power lines because it tends to be generated close to where it is used.

The largest is the Eastern Interconnection, an extensive complex of transmission lines that stretches from Halifax to New Orleans, with substations that step down the high - voltage electricity to lower levels so that it can be distributed locally along smaller wires.

The four interconnections are linked by short, high - voltage lines, but they do not provide nearly enough capacity to move sufficient power back and forth, much less to handle the additional burden of thousands of renewable sources with output that is intermittent and sometimes hard to predict.

The commission is overseeing the $ 5 billion construction of 2,300 miles of high - voltage lines into the wind zones.

High - voltage lines of both varieties have long proved reliable.

These high - voltage lines also allow neighboring utilities to link their grids, thereby helping one another sustain a critical balance between generation supply and customer demand.

Bottle caps, DDT, high - voltage power lines and the occasional shooting also contribute, which means the environment still presents «all the mortality factors that nearly caused their extinction,» Grantham says.

These companies operate the major power lines in Germany that make up the 380 - and 220 - kV high - voltage grid.

In coming years the handful of DC transmission lines scattered across the country today may be joined by at least nine new long - distance, high - voltage DC (HVDC) lines that several companies are planning to build.

Accurately measuring electric fields is important in a variety of applications, such as weather forecasting, process control on industrial machinery, or ensuring the safety of people working on high - voltage power lines.

Ever since humans started building tall things, birds have been pooping on them, including high - voltage power lines.

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Sitting about two miles from the base of the dammed 323,000 - acre Castaic Lake, the school's campus is also threaded by high - voltage power lines and underground crude - oil pipelines.

The hybrid system in the Prius c comprises a SULEV (Tier 2 Bin 3)- rated 1.5 - liter in - line, four - cylinder gasoline engine (INZ - FXE) that utilizes an Atkinson cycle to increase efficiency, a new hybrid transaxle (P510), an air - cooled, high - output 144V, 6.5 Ah NiMH battery and a variable - voltage system in which a boost converter boosts the operating voltage of the system to a maximum of 520 V DC.

The 550,000 - square - foot facility used a 10 - stage phosphate pre-paint system, an eight - stage uniprime system, two lines for color application by high - voltage electrostatic reciprocators, turbobell sprayers, four ovens with radiant heat and convection heat zones, and 26 miles of stainless steel piping.

All assembly line members have received National Vocational Qualification training in the handling of High Voltage components.

Seven processes are entirely new to the assembly line, such as the installation of the sub-battery in the luggage compartment, the main battery behind the rear seats, the high voltage cable and the modified, 1.8 VVT - i petrol engine.

Blood Line is a high - voltage spy thriller that redefines rogue — the Granger Spy Novel series introduces a loving family with lethal issues caught in the crosshairs of global arms dealers.

High voltage power lines also emit «stray voltage» which has been proven to cause crippling deformities.