Sentences with phrase «power transmission lines»

The federal government already has eminent domain authority for land acquisition for other public purposes but not for construction of power transmission lines.
A newly released study highlights the economic benefits associated with a proposed wind powered transmission line.
They contain, essentially, two ultra-tiny intertwining power transmission lines in repeating S - curves.
The book is studded with explanations of common but uncelebrated objects — those dumbbells that hang from the undersides of power conductors (to absorb wind - induced vibration); the odd holes in barns (for owls invited in to eat the mice); and the colorful globes on power transmission lines that cross rivers (to alert pilots of tall - masted boats and low - flying aircraft).
The project involves a multi-state construction of power transmission lines from power stations in Canada, that will impact on Stony Point and other towns in New York State and Rockland County.
As the electrical service provider for the Long Island Power Authority, PSEG Long Island began work in 2013 to upgrade power transmission lines between its East Hampton Village and Amagansett substations.
The main power transmission line linking Hungary to the east is a 750 kV line from Ukraine.
The power will be sent to Adelaide via a buried undersea cable with a diameter of about 10 cm (the existing power transmission lines on Yorke Peninsula are at maximum capacity when Wattle Point Wind Farm is operating at full power).
This integration will require new power transmission lines, but who pays for them is always a sticking point between provinces.
For now, the US Army Corps of Engineers is concentrating its power restoration work across four fronts: providing emergency power, getting existing power plants up to speed, rebuilding power transmission lines, and repairing distribution systems.
This research is already being applied in the development of highefficiency power transmission lines and highspeed Maglev trains.
Indeed, a committee of the National Research Council, the operating arm of the National Academy of Sciences, reported in 1996 [link] that it had found no persuasive evidence that household appliances or power transmission lines presented a threat.
The electric currents driven by the coupling of the solar wind and the interplanetary magnetic field with the geomagnetic field — which during the 19th century flowed through telegraph wires — can now find their way into electric power transmission lines with potentially devastating consequences.
No further wind farm development can take place on Eyre or Yorke Peninsulas, where there is a very high quality wind resource, because of the lack of suitable power transmission lines.
No medium of long - distance power transmission line has ever been built in Australia to connect a region rich in renewable power with the electricity grid.
Concern is mounting about the impact of several power transmission lines from new and planned wind farms in the south - west.
The electricity generated will go to a sub-station on site, then to the existing 275 kV power transmission line that runs through the area.
Many power transmission lines run through mountainous regions where water sources and dams produce electrical power.
Patrol pilots fly wherever electrical power transmission lines or oil and gas pipelines exist.
Within the last year, high courts in three states — California, Connecticut, and Hawaii — have ruled against claims of hazards caused by EMFs from overhead power transmission lines.
Power transmission lines also reopen the debate about the uncertain health effects of electromagnetic field radiation and the perceived impact of EMF radiation on nearby property values, Boring says.
If the SA government was serious about maximising SA's sustainable power it could spend taxpayer's money much more productively than on tiny «showcase» projects, for example by upgrading power transmission lines.
CK: As the economy shifts from liquid fuels to clean power, how bullish are you on power transmission lines?
Three of the state's four major power transmission lines to the north of Adelaide were downed by the winds.
The existing power transmission lines on Eyre Peninsula (as shown on the map) are only 66kV and have no reserve capacity.
It's been nearly two months since the hurricane made landfall on Puerto Rico and knocked out 80 percent of power transmission lines, leaving the entire island in the dark.
First, power transmission lines can extend for hundreds of kilometers, so the voltage adds up.
Perhaps the worst blow from Maria was the 150 mph winds that knocked down 80 percent of the island's power transmission lines and 85 percent of its cellphone towers, leaving people in the dark and struggling to contact each other.
The Transmission Company of Nigeria (TCN) says it has upgraded its power transmission lines in Bauchi and environs to raise the bulk electricity capacity...
People have demanded answers to these questions since 1979, when Nancy Wertheimer, an epidemiologist, wrote a paper with Ed Leeper, an independent physicist in Boulder, Colorado, purporting to show that children living close to power transmission lines were twice as likely to contract leukaemia as children in homes farther away.
The electrical currents flowing in the ionosphere in turn induce voltages and currents in the ground and in long telephone or power transmission lines.
The company serves almost 10 million power market clients and 1.6 million natural gas customers and runs over 330,000 km (205,000 miles) of power transmission lines.
If local people stop them being built anywhere near houses or towns it is quite possible that they will not be built at all, because of the cost of building too far from power transmission lines, or because they will generate less electricity in areas where the winds are not suitable.
Skyscrapers, power transmission lines, vehicles and other existing human artifacts / activities are much more lethal to birds than are wind turbines — at least, since small turbines sited on migration routes have become a thing of the past.
Wind farms can generally not profitably be built in the Outback because of the lack of power transmission lines and the cost of building them off - shore is about twice that of building on - shore.
In 2007, Harvey founded the Alliance for Responsible Energy Policy after learning that the Los Angeles Department of Water and Power wanted to build a power transmission line nearby — a plan that was later abandoned.
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