Power Lines' articles

Just saw this in the news: http://www.al.com/news/mobile/index.ssf/2014/11/cat_causes_over_60000_in_damag.html#incart_river A cat entered the substation feeding the City of Fairhope municipal utility (which is served off of a 46kV line from Alabama Power) and got on top of a voltage regulator, resulting a short circuit and quite a fire ball! Damage ended up totaling over $60,000. Here's a look at the sub before the cat event put it in the Graveyard: http://goo.gl/maps/opkmY

I've got 42 new pictures uploading now. They include lines from Gulf Power, Mississippi Power, and some public utilities. These will be the last pictures of lines from Gulf Power for a while. Next week, I'll be doing some pictures from Florida Power & Light, followed by some utilities in Virginia. Afterwards, I plan to spend the fall season photographing lines from Connecticut Light & Power. Enjoy!

Got 59 more pictures from Gulf Power uploading. Come check them out!

UTILITY REFERENCE DIRECTORY Updated June 29, 2014 Here is a grand list of all the utilities I have photographed over the years. You can reach my photos of each utility by entering their corresponding "search name" into the search box for my photos. Utilities A list of utilities, with the seach name in parantheses: ALABAMA 1. Alabama Power Co. (Alabama Power) 2. Dothan Utilities (Dothan Municipal) (3) CONNECTICUT (Includes "fallen flag" utilities that have…

Lately I've been embarking on a project here to organize my photos by utility, with each utility getting its own album. So far, over the past week or so, I've gotten around to about a dozen utilities, and I plan to get to some more as time goes by. I encourage you all to come and take a look at some of the new albums if you're interested in the construction from a specific utility: www.ipernity.com/doc/connecticut_power_lines/album

I've been debating whether or not I should take a big safari through the state of Alabama next week to cover more of Alabama Power Co.'s old 4.16kV distribution. Based on the sample of photos I uploaded this week, would any of you all be interested in seeing more? Some possible destinations would include Mobile and Montgomery.

ORANGEBURG, SC: Served by municipal utility. 1070 State Rd S-38-924 - Crossarm-hung transformer banks: goo.gl/maps/NC8rs 336 State Rd S-38-916 - More good transformer banks: goo.gl/maps/TrT0P 987 State Rd S-38-1061 - 8.32kV Substation: goo.gl/maps/sZmwB Glover Street - 8.32kV Substation: goo.gl/maps/blN58 1188 Glover Street - Neat switch pole: goo.gl/maps/bvWPZ 1430 Glover St - Platform-mounted transformer bank 645 Rowe St SE - Double-circuit vertical line: goo.gl/m…

JEA - Jacksonville, FL 2878 Park Street - Another oldie ( http://goo.gl/maps/fjv78 ) 1545 Avondale Ave - Odd pole: http://goo.gl/maps/XybpX 3349 Herschel Street - Another oldie: http://goo.gl/maps/2nlYP 4203 Woodmere Street - 23 over 4.16: http://goo.gl/maps/VYsrT 4233 Woodmere Street - Oldie but a goodie: http://goo.gl/maps/6XTKX 1718 Talbot Ave - 4.16kV weatherhead riser: http://goo.gl/maps/Qe3nl 1002 S McDuff Ave - 4.16kV substation: http://goo.gl/maps/17s…

PRICHARD, AL (Utility: Alabama Power Co.) •399 Diaz St. - 4.16kV substation: goo.gl/maps/mVhJU •1012 Martin Luther King Jr. Drive - 12kV with 4.16kV underbuild: http://goo.gl/maps/thkYF •111 Joffre St. - LM Obround transformer: http://goo.gl/maps/IjEow •1722 North Wilson Ave. - Westy & old GE in service: http://goo.gl/maps/esioa •1506 North Wilson Ave. - Another Westy in service: http://goo.gl/maps/TEKo0 •1162 North Wilson Ave. - Cast iron Westy & early L-M arresters: ht…

I took a little safari covering the 27.6kV system in Litchfield today. Right now, I'm in the midst of uploading 35 pictures that I took. Descriptions will be added later today. Enjoy!

I took a drive around Burlington, Connecticut today and noticed a few replacements on the grid. The pole in the pictures below has now been completely replaced: Another pole has had some work done on it too. This shorter-than-usual 4.8kV distribution pole has had its crossarm replaced. That 4.8kV pole that got its crossarm replaced, by the way, is also part of the Main Street 4.8kV system. It is fed off of a 500kVA step-down transformer…

I took many pictures on yesterday's line safari, which covered the Seymour area. Come on over and give them a look! Lots of interesting construction, including a 13.8/4.8kV substation.

Made a few slight adjustments to my page here on Ipernity today. I hope you all enjoy it! I also did some updates on my secondary profile on Flickr as well, with some links to point visitors over here to my Ipernity page. A link to my Flickr page: www.flickr.com/photos/connecticut_power_lines

You all may have noticed that I have been taking fewer power line picture trips in the past week. This has been caused by a string of inclinent weather that stretched from last Monday to today, and will continue into next day or two. Lots of snow and chilly weather. Another problem is now with the recent snow storms, the Connecticut DOT has been putting down extremely corrosive calcium chloride (CaCl) salt on the roads. The temperature has also been well below freezing during this stormy coup…

Anybody got plans to head to the insulator show in Enfield, CT this upcoming Sunday, December 8?

Ran into this article on the Connecticut Siting Council's web-site today: http://www.ct.gov/csc/lib/csc/f2008/30208_cover_lr.pdf The top things on their list of planned substation upgrades that really stuck in my mind included: -"Modifying the 115kV Bunker Hill substation in Waterbury (Date to be determined)" -"Modifying the Torrington Terminal substation in Torrington (Date to be determined)" This page is over 5 years old now, so there is a good chance that the projects I mentioned…

Took some more pictures of Connecticut Light & Power's work to rebuild 115kV transmission lines running from the Stevenson Dam to Waterbury and Watertown. The segment from Middlebury to Frost Bridge (345/115kV transmission sub in Watertown) has been completed and looks to be in operation now. New monopoles are going up for the Waterbury-Middlebury branch, and the Stevenson-Middlebury branch looks to be untouched so far. One interesting thing I noticed about the new monopoles is that they all…

As part of the "Fine Toothed Comb" photo update project, I am also tweaking and changing the names of the pictures to shorten and streamline them more. Names like "HELCO 13.2kV Single Phase - West Hartford, Conn. MUTUAL AID" are being changed over to "HELCO 13.2kV - West Hartford, CT (Mutual Aid). I am also in the process of changing the "Conn." abbreviation for "Connecticut" over to the shorter "CT". So keep that in mind if you're searching for a photo. I've got most of the names changed o…