Over the weekend prior to Christmas, more than 500,000 homes and businesses here in Michigan lost power in an ice storm. Hundreds of out-of-state workers took their Christmas holiday week and drove their trucks to Michigan to work in cold, ...
Tags: Storm Resilience, Instruments, power system
The IBEW and Edison Electric Institute (EEI) recently saluted the men and women who keep electricity flowing to our homes and businesses. Electrical lineworkers construct and maintain electric transmission and distribution facilities and, ...
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April 18, 2013 - Today in the U.S., the Edison Electric Institute (EEI) and IBEW saluted “the men and women who risk their lives daily to keep electricity flowing to the nation’s homes and businesses”. Besides ...
Tags: IBEW Electric, Edison Electric
Adherence to RV generator safety is as important as using the correct fuel in a generator set, if safety is ignored it threatens to cause harm not only to the generator itself but also to the people around it. There are several precautions ...
Are any industry sectors more mobile than utilities? Apart from public transport, delivery services such as UPS and FedEx, and law enforcement, there are no vehicles and workers more visible than ours. Many utility workers can be described ...
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