Aging transmission towers considered key to ... Pacific Gas & Electric Co. spokesperson Deanna Contreras said. The current towers are tubular steel “hairpin” towers that have served the ...

Some transmission lines require very long span crossings over rivers and other obstacles. The increased height and heavy loading may make lattice towers and tubular H-frames inefficient designs for ...

Modern welding technology enables utilities to use more tubular-steel poles on transmission line projects and benefit from easier installation. The volume of the structure is reduced significantly ...

Workers guide a portion of a transmission tower into place Monday ... and replacing four towers with tubular steel poles within the city of San Luis Obispo. The first phase also included replacing ...

Removal of all the towers in this part of the Tehachapi Renewable Transmission Project can take up to three months. On Wednesday, Edison crews prepared to take down the 198-foot tubular tower at ...

Inspections and maintenance of a California utility’s transmission-line towers were inadequate for years, and that helped lead to an equipment failure that ignited the state’s deadliest ...

Locweld’s 220,000 square-foot manufacturing facility produces lattice towers, tubular poles and with an annual capacity of 50,000 tons. The company describes itself as the largest transmission ...

ALTADENA, Calif. (KABC) -- Do two transmission towers hold the answers to how one of the most destructive disasters in California history began? On Thursday, the ...

At 132m in height, the project will feature the tallest hubs for wind turbines installed with a tubular steel tower in South Korea. The order includes eleven Vestas V136-4.2 MW wind turbines ...