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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National Grid has partnered with LineVision, a provider of non-contact overhead power line monitoring systems, for the deployment of dynamic line rating (DLR) sensors on circuits between one of the ...

Pittsburgh-based Duquesne Light Company (DLC) is moving forward with a significant expansion of advanced grid-monitoring technology aimed at increasing transmission capacity and preparing its ...

Dynamic thermal rating (DTR) of transmission lines offers a transformative approach to managing energy flows by providing real-time estimates of a conductor’s current-carrying capacity based on actual ...