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.

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 ...

Not-for-profit generation and transmission cooperative Basin Electric Power Cooperative, which serves three million members across nine states, is using dynamic line rating technology to identify safe ...

FERC today invited the public to comment on a potential framework that would make more efficient and cost-effective use of the power grid by requiring the application of dynamic line ratings (DLR), ...

Northwest U.S. utility Puget Sound Energy (PSE) has joined with Norway-headquartered Heimdall Power on a dynamic line rating (DLR) pilot project in Washington state. The companies on October 22 said ...

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Energy Provider to Install 52 Overhead Line Sensors (or “Magic Balls”) Across its Grid to Expand Capacity of Its Existing Infrastructure by About 40% Power grids across the U.S. are facing increased ...