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Stocking Stuffers for the Lineman in Your Life

Peaceful. Joyful. Restful. These are words most people want to associate with the Christmas season, but the reality is that "busy", "stressful", and "chaotic" are often a more accurate description. Between arranging family get togethers around Christmas programs and...

NIPSCO to supply 3 GW to Amazon data centers in northern Indiana

Northern Indiana Public Service Co. and an affiliate expect to spend about $7 billion on 2.6 GW of gas, 400 MW of storage and transmission — to be paid for by Amazon. A Northern Indiana Public Service Co. affiliate — called NIPSCO Generation, or GenCo — plans to build...

Thank You, Linemen

The fields around Tallman Equipment headquarters have gone from green to golden and now to bare. The harvesters have come and gone. The farmers around us are finishing up with the last of their crops, and the silos and grain bins are bursting at the seams. The dust is...

Duke Energy marks Veterans Day with nearly $50,000 in grants to support Hoosier veterans and their families

PLAINFIELD, Ind. – In honor of Veterans Day, the Duke Energy Foundation today announced nearly $50,000 in grants to 10 Indiana organizations that serve veterans and military families. The funding will support programs that honor Hoosier veterans and help them with...

AEP capital spending plan surges 33%, to $72B, in utility ‘super-cycle’

Even with the increasing spending, American Electric Power expects it can limit residential rate hikes to 3.5% a year over the next five years, company officials said. Surging loads In the last 12 months, AEP’s utilities sold 6% more electricity compared to the...

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The first signs arrive in August as the kids go back to school followed shortly by the arrival of pumpkin spice everything. Pretty soon the shelves of the local big box stores are full of Halloween decorations and candy. In September, the weather starts to change. The...

Columbus lineman to compete in International Lineman’s Rodeo

A local Duke Energy foreman will be competing in The International Lineman’s Rodeo. Travis Vidal, a line working foreman for Duke Energy, will be competing on a three man team at the rodeo on Oct. 18 in Bonner Springs, Kansas. Vidal is a returning competitor, having...

Potential US Threat From ‘Imelda’ Early Next Week As Tropical Storm Humberto Forecast To Become A Hurricane

Tropical Storm Humberto is forecast to become a major hurricane in the central Atlantic, but the next system expected to develop, which would be named Imelda, may become a larger threat to parts of the Southeast U.S. and Bahamas as the hurricane season shifts into a...

The Evolution of Personal Protective Grounding: Part 2

PPG is equally as important today as it was a century ago, providing lineworkers with a critical safeguard against electrical hazards. Part 1 of this article began with discussion of the first American power systems, when lineworkers initially encountered the hazards...

The Evolution of Personal Protective Grounding: Part 1

Before safe and effective PPG methods emerged, pioneering lineworkers navigated their worksites with limited grounding knowledge, equipment and procedures. Personal protective grounding, or PPG, is arguably the most critical safety procedure affecting contemporary...

Hurricane Milton: Duke Energy Florida’s Outages Drop From More Than 1 Million to 105,000

Line crews restore power for several counties in Duke Energy Florida's service territory following Hurricane Milton. After Hurricane Milton hit Florida as a Category 3 storm, Duke Energy Florida conducted damage assessments and began to restore power to the more than...

Five Tools You Didn’t Know You Could Rent From Tallman Equipment

Tallman Equipment has been supplying power linemen with the best tools and equipment since 1952, and in that time, many of those linemen have come to rely on our rental department almost as if it is their own tool crib. There is no mistaking the advantage of having...

Hurricane Milton slams Florida, leaving 3.4M utility customers without power

About 71% of Tampa Electric’s customers were without electricity Thursday morning after the hurricane hit land on Florida’s west coast. About 3.4 million electric customers were without power in Florida on Thursday morning after Hurricane Milton hit the state’s...

Hurricane Milton An Extremely Serious Threat To Florida; Destructive Storm Surge, Winds, Flooding Rain Expected

Hurricane Milton continues to pose a grave danger to Florida, where its potentially historic strike will bring destructive, life-threatening storm surge, widespread wind damage, flooding rainfall and tornadoes beginning Wednesday.

‘Extreme impacts’: Milton to become major hurricane, barrel ashore near Tampa Bay midweek

A state of emergency has been declared in Florida ahead of Milton, which is forecast to plow into the western peninsula on Wednesday as a major hurricane, packing wind gusts up to 140 mph and 15 feet of storm surge. Just days after the devastating impacts of Hurricane...

In areas hardest hit by Helene, rural cooperatives could need weeks to restore power

Mudslides, flooding and downed trees are challenging utilities in remote areas as they work to restore power. So far, supply chains have kept pace with the need for replacement equipment. Recovery efforts continue after Hurricane Helene knocked out power to about 6...

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Columbus lineman to compete in International Lineman’s Rodeo

Texas regulators trim, approve $2.7B CenterPoint system resiliency plan

CenterPoint’s January resiliency plan had a $5.75 billion price tag. A settlement cut the ask to $3.2 billion, and the Public Utility Commission of Texas trimmed further on Thursday. The Public Utility Commission of Texas on Thursday...

Tropical Storm Erin forms, to become first Atlantic hurricane of 2025

Erin has formed in the eastern Atlantic and is forecast to be the first hurricane and first major hurricane of the 2025 Atlantic season. Erin will be a long-track storm and will eye the United States next week. A tropical rainstorm in the...

The One Booth You Can’t Afford to Miss at Utility Expo 2025 (and Bourbon!)

The Utility Expo 2025 is the must-attend event for linemen, utility professionals, and anyone working in electric generation, transmission, and distribution industry. This year’s Expo will be held October 7-9th in beautiful Louisville, Kentucky, and it’s the largest event of its kind in North America, offering the chance to get hands-on with the latest gear, connect with experts, and experience innovations that are reshaping utility work. Here’s why the Utility Expo is a can’t-miss event and why your first stop should be the Tallman Equipment booth.

US electricity demand will grow 50% by 2050, electrical manufacturer study finds

Data centers and transportation electrification will drive U.S. electricity demand about 2% higher each year for the next quarter century, according to a new analysis completed for NEMA. Driven by data centers and transportation...

ISO New England issues transmission RFP to access new wind resources

The New England grid operator on Monday published a request for proposals to address the region’s longer-term transmission needs, aimed at upgrading the electric system between anticipated wind generation in northern Maine and demand centers to the south.

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