Monitoring and Mitigating Unexplained Flashovers on HVDC Lines

16/03/2022 23 min
Monitoring and Mitigating Unexplained Flashovers on HVDC Lines

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Episode Synopsis

For our March 2022 Line Life Podcast, Field Editor Amy Fischbach talks with Jeff Laninga, live-line and electrical effect section head at Manitoba Hydro, about ongoing research on flashovers on HVDC lines. Linemen worked with a vendor to install monitoring equipment on the towers, and the company is working on studying the flashovers in its high-voltage laboratory.

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