electricity transmission
A $2.25 billion project to bring electricity to parts of India that need it most has won a $750 million loan package from the Asian Development Bank (ADB). The project is aimed at spurring growth, reducing poverty and helping energy supplies keep up with rising demand in the fast-developing
electricity transmission
Here’s a pretty cool smart technology you’ll never see in your house, although it could do a great deal to help keep your home’s electricity on: a robotic device called LineVue that can “see” the health of the conductor core at the heart of transmission lines. Developed
electricity transmission
It’s well known that China has been going gangbusters on developing its energy infrastructure, rapidly building everything from not-so-green new coal-fired power to a massive solar photovoltaics manufacturing base to large deployments of wind power. While its energy resources have been growing, though, its transmission capacity has some serious
electricity transmission
With all the looming energy challenges on our plates — peak oil, unstable petro-nations, rising population and consumption levels in oil-producing countries, climate change and so on — is re-designing the electricity transmission tower, also known as a pylon, really a top priority? Officials in the UK, which has just launched a
electricity transmission
As the UK launches a competition to find a new design for electricity pylons, also known as transmission towers, we thought we’d explore what existing pylons around the world look like. Here are some of the more notable ones that can be found across the globe: Australia These towers
