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.

Great River Energy’s implementation of dynamic line rating demonstrated capacity gains, cost savings, and enhanced grid resilience through real-time weather and line condition data. DLR measures ...

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To guarantee the tensile strength and clearance requirements of transmission lines are not violated under time-varying external conditions, transmission lines are given line ratings that determine ...

Mathematicians propose a theoretical framework to understand how waves and other disturbances move through materials in conditions that vary in both space and time. The theory is called 'field ...