In the spring of 2002, an electric utility was upgrading a substation in the southwestern United States. Although the job seemed typical to the electricians hired by the utility from an outside ...

Steel reinforcements are shown before concrete was poured for the transformer pad at the Smith Valley Substation. NV Energy constructed three substations in the 1960s to serve its communities in the ...

The 34.5-kV bus, circuit breakers and other equipment is housed indoors in a climate-controlled building. Distribution system planners live in a weather-normalized Brigadoon sort of world that exists ...