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Transmission Line Engineering Projects

Transmission Line Engineering Services

Recently Completed Projects Include:

Transmission Line Engineering

• 100kV – Replaced 65 lattice towers with double circuit steel poles –
  Cliffside Line: 29 miles
• 138kV – Applied Phase Raisers to 58 H-frames – Badger-Pulliam: 36 miles
• 138kV – Line Relocation for Power Plant Expansion
  Relocation of a 69kV transmission line, Realtime engineered 5 new steel poles on foundations; provided structural analysis, provided soil borings and surveying. 69kV line was designed to 138kV standards. Realtime provided specifications for all of the new equipment and poles, as well as, construction specifications for the new line.
• Double Circuit Towers 138kV – Relocated & replaced with 3 new direct bury steel poles for State Highway 23 road move – near Plymouth, WI
• 138kV – Relocated and installed 10 new wood pole structures & 5 steel poles on foundations for line Y-80 to facilitate State Highway 91 road move
• 138kV – Relocated transmission line & installed 4 new steel poles on foundations for line Y-122 to facilitate State Highway 10 road move
• 138kV – Relocated & replaced 4 H-frame structures for line Y-130 to facilitate State Highway 151 road move
• 138kV – Relocated transmission line & replaced 11 structures, including 2 laminate wood poles, for line Y-105 to facilitate State Highway 151 road move in two different locations
• 138kV – Relocated & replaced 35 single-circuit wood poles for line Y-78 to
  facilitate State Highway 14 road move
• 138kV – Sheridan Tap on Line Y-70 – Designed tap for 3 one-way switches on
  3 steel poles into Sheridan substation
  

Line Rating Studies

• 69kV – 363 Miles of Line Rating Studies for a major utility in Iowa
• 69kV – 800 amp loading clearance check and line uprate engineering: 4.6 miles
• Maximum Operating Capacity Line Rating Study – Farr-Tippy: 13 miles
  Utilizing LiDAR raw survey data
• Maximum Operating Capacity Line Rating Study – Paris-Albers: 12.5 miles
  Utilizing LiDAR raw survey data
• 138kV Line Rating Study – Badger Pulliam: 35.7 miles of single circuit H-frame construction
• 138kV Line Rating Study – Cedar to M38: 56 miles
• 100kV Line Rating Study – Cherokee-Cliffside: 38 miles
  

LiDAR Survey Experience

• 274 miles of data reduction and PLSCADD structure modeling – major Michigan RTO
• 1585 miles of data reduction and PLSCADD file creation – major Wisconsin RTO
• 110 miles of data reduction, PLSCADD modeling and line rating –
  major N. Carolina Utility
• 363 Miles of Line Rating Studies using LiDAR data – major Iowa Utility
  

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