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.

PG&E is conducting an 18-month trial utilizing fiber optic sensing technology to monitor transmission lines in challenging ...

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 ...

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Heimdall Power's Neuron sensor, about the size of a bowling ball, monitors the temperature and conditions of electric power transmission lines. As utilities scramble to meet fast-growing U.S. power ...

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 ...

Great River Energy’s dynamic line rating (DLR) project is the largest DLR deployment to date in the U.S. based on the number of sensors installed. Early results identified a 48.92% increase in power ...

Trial deployment with leading California utility aims to address mounting grid challenges from data center demand, extreme ...

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 ...