Sentences with phrase «high voltage power line»

SMC Construction (Tustin, CA) 2000 — 12/2002 Senior Project Superintendent • Direct the construction of the $ 4.35 million award winning City of LA Woodland Hills Branch library • Oversee building demolition and construction of new two story structural steel masonry and wood building • Direct asbestos and lead abatement, removal and replacement of soil and relocation of the high voltage power line • Responsible for the installation of computers and internet technology, CAD5 wiring and wireless, and security system • Ensure compliance with all applicable building codes and safety regulations • Direct the $ 6.75 million modernization of the City of Los Angeles Hyperion Water Treatment Facility • Oversee interior demolition and reconstruction of the 2nd and 3rd floors in accordance with modern needs • Responsible for standard office and highly technical laboratory construction

Hazardous occupations could be observed as farmers & ranchers, high voltage power line repairmen, loggers and lumberjacks, commercial divers, iron workers, waste disposal workers, truck drivers and a number of others.

I recall we talked about oat bran, and the safety (or not) of living near a high voltage power line.

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

The same view, but from a better angle (without high voltage power lines in sight) is a short walk away from there, at the Panjoo Lookout.

Global Energy Interconnection (GEI), a vision of a world power grid, was outlined by the State Grid Corporation of China («State Grid») It would be based upon a global network of Ultra High Voltage power lines connecting global power generation including massive wind farm at the North Pole and solar power from equatorial areas to energy users around the world.

There, Australian gas could be fed into an open - access, common carrier gas export pipeline network bundled with high - capacity high voltage power lines and fiber optics.

It would be based upon a global network of Ultra High Voltage power lines connecting global power generation including massive wind farm at the North Pole and solar power from equatorial areas to energy users around the world.

Choppin, Delon and Menard's design uses existing infrastructure - the towers and pylons that dot the more than 157,000 miles of high voltage power lines in the U.S. - to locate their turbines, which can be stacked within already sited structures.

The workplaces are inherently dangerous, involving such hazards as working with or around heavy equipment, including heavy haul trucks, cable and hydraulic shovels, high voltage power lines, radiation, chemicals, explosives, high temperature steam, high pressure piping, high pressure, flammable liquids and gases, and in blast zones.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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 gpower 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 gPower / American Wind Energy Association plan, are shown in green.

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 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.

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.

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.

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.

In the late 1980s, palpable dread gripped parts of the country after reports that clusters of cancer had developed among children whose families lived near high - voltage power lines.

Our recent study published in the journal Environmental Research Letters estimated that transmitting a hybrid of renewable and coal power through 12 new high - voltage transmission lines could prevent 16,000 deaths from air pollution exposure, and avoid 340 million tons of CO2 emissions in China.

Indeed, a group of Norwegian companies have already started building high - voltage DC lines between Scandinavia, the Netherlands and Germany, though these are intended as much to sell the country's power as to accumulate other people's.

On 2013/10/25 Grenatec reported that China has plans to built up to 20 high - capacity, high - voltage power lines across its territory in order to connect its western sun, wind and hydro energy sources with its eastern and southern energy - hungry coastal cities.

(This is part of a class of issues surrounding the health risks of various electronic technologies — electromagnetic fields, «dirty» electricity, high - voltage power lines, etc.) It's possible to work up irrational fear over just about anything.

By 2050, Asia could be criss - crossed by a highly - efficient network of High Voltage Direct Current (HVDC) power lines, natural gas pipelines and fiber optic cables.

The electricity generated is transformed into the higher voltages (up to 400,000 volts) used for economic, efficient transmission via power line grids.

In the next 20 years, high - voltage direct current power lines and ubiquitously - interconnected markets can enable «cloud energy.»

There is also the high cost issue of long transmission lines, and expensive high - voltage transformers to bring the wind energy from remote Mendocino to the power - hungry cities in the Bay Area.

A new paper by NOAA and CIRES finds that with the deployment of High Voltage Direct Current (HVDC) transmisson lines, the US can seriously ramp up the use of solar and wind power to meet the nation's energy needs.

Later, China plans to roll out even higher capacity Ultra-High Voltage Direct Current (UHVDC) power line infrastructure.

A proposal by Australia's Origin Energy and PNG's Energy Developments envisages building a 1,800 MW hydro plant in PNG and exporting power down to Queensland over an 1,800 - kilometer High Voltage Direct Current power line.

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A 2004 study by the Tokyo - based Asia Pacific Energy Research Center (APERC) suggested Russia's Far Eastern hydro resources could be harnessed to provide electricity to China and Japan over High Voltage Direct Current power lines, some of which could traverse North Korea.

This electricity and natural gas would then be shipped across the Timor Sea via bundled high voltage direct current power lines and natural gas pipelines.

High - Voltage Direct Current power lines are being increased deployed.

Today, the three main power grids — one for the eastern U.S., one for the West and one serving most of Texas — include more than 450,000 miles of high - voltage transmission lines.

The power grids in the U.S. — there are actually three of them — are enormously complex, but they're traditionally based on a simple idea: Electricity moves in one direction, from a power plant to homes along high voltage transmission lines and lower voltage power lines that distribute electricity to individual homes and neighborhoods.