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Transmission tower, the Glossary

A transmission tower (also electricity pylon, hydro tower, or pylon) is a tall structure, usually a lattice tower made of steel that is used to support an overhead power line.^[1]

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Aerial crane

An aerial crane or flying crane is a helicopter used to lift heavy or awkward loads.

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Aggersund

Aggersund is a village in northern Denmark with a population of 264 (2024).

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Airport

An airport is an aerodrome with extended facilities, mostly for commercial air transport.

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Almeirim, Pará

Almeirim is a city on the Amazon and the northernmost municipality in the Brazilian state of Pará.

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Alternating current (AC) is an electric current that periodically reverses direction and changes its magnitude continuously with time, in contrast to direct current (DC), which flows only in one direction.

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Ameralik Span

The Ameralik Span is the longest span of an electrical overhead power line in the world.

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American Electric Power

American Electric Power Company, Inc. (AEP), (railcar reporting mark: AEPX) is an American domestic electric utility company in the United States.

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Antti Nurmesniemi

Antti Aarre Nurmesniemi (30 August 1927 in Hämeenlinna – 11 September 2003 in Helsinki) was a Finnish designer.

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Architectural engineering

Architectural engineering or architecture engineering, also known as building engineering, is a discipline that deals with the engineering and construction of buildings, such as environmental, structural, mechanical, electrical, computational, embeddable, and other research domains.

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Arcing horns

Arcing horns (sometimes arc-horns) are projecting conductors used to protect insulators or switch hardware on high voltage electric power transmission systems from damage during flashover.

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Argentina

Argentina, officially the Argentine Republic, is a country in the southern half of South America.

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Aust Severn Powerline Crossing

Aust Severn Powerline Crossing is the longest overhead power line span in the United Kingdom with a length of.

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Aviation obstruction lighting

Aviation obstruction lighting is used to enhance the visibility of structures or fixed obstacles which may conflict with the safe navigation of aircraft.

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Újhartyán

Újhartyán (Hartian) is a small town in Pest County, Hungary.

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Łomianki

Łomianki is a town in Warsaw West County, Masovian Voivodeship, Poland.

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Świerże Górne

Świerże Górne is a village in the administrative district of Gmina Kozienice, within Kozienice County, Masovian Voivodeship, in east-central Poland.

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Balakovo

Balakovo (p) is a city in Saratov Oblast, Russia, located on the East bank of the Volga River about northeast of Saratov, the administrative center of the oblast.

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Bangsar South

Bangsar South (Malay: Bangsar Selatan) is an integrated property development project which sits on the former Kampung Kerinchi site in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.

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Barbed wire

Roll of modern agricultural barbed wire Barbed wire, also known as barb wire, is a type of steel fencing wire constructed with sharp edges or points arranged at intervals along the strands.

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Baruth/Mark

Baruth/Mark is a town in the Teltow-Fläming district of Brandenburg, Germany.

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Benicia, California

Benicia is a city in Solano County, California, located on the north bank of the Carquinez Strait in the North Bay region of the San Francisco Bay Area.

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Black Canyon of the Colorado

The Black Canyon of the Colorado is the canyon on the Colorado River where Hoover Dam was built.

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Bobrowniki

Bobrowniki is a town in Lipno County, Kuyavian-Pomeranian Voivodeship, in central Poland.

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Bochum

Bochum (also,; Baukem) is a city in North Rhine-Westphalia.

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Bog Fox

Designer high-voltage pylon Bog Fox (Estonian: Soorebane) is Estonia’s first high-voltage designer pylon, established as the corner pylon of the Harku–Lihula–Sindi high-voltage line in summer 2020.

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Bosporus overhead line crossings

Bosporus overhead line crossings refers to the three transmission line crossings of the Bosporus, the strait in Istanbul, Turkey.

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Bremen

Bremen (Low German also: Breem or Bräm), officially the City Municipality of Bremen (Stadtgemeinde Bremen), is the capital of the German state of the Free Hanseatic City of Bremen (Freie Hansestadt Bremen), a two-city-state consisting of the cities of Bremen and Bremerhaven.

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Bystrup Architecture Design Engineering

Bystrup Arkitekter (BYSTRUP) is a Danish architecture and design firm established in 1994.

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Canton of St. Gallen

The canton of St.

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Carquinez Strait Powerline Crossing

Carquinez Strait Powerline Crossing was the world's first powerline crossing of a large river.

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Celebration, Florida

Celebration is a master-planned community (MPC) and census-designated place (CDP) in Osceola County, Florida, United States.

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Chūshi Powerline Crossing

The Chūshi Powerline Crossing is a part of the, a 220 kV powerline in Japan.

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Climate change mitigation

Climate change mitigation (or decarbonisation) is action to limit the greenhouse gases in the atmosphere that cause climate change.

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Concrete

Concrete is a composite material composed of aggregate bonded together with a fluid cement that cures to a solid over time.

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Crane (machine)

A crane is a machine used to move materials both vertically and horizontally, utilizing a system of a boom, hoist, wire ropes or chains, and sheaves for lifting and relocating heavy objects within the swing of its boom.

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Danube

The Danube (see also other names) is the second-longest river in Europe, after the Volga in Russia.

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Darwin, Northern Territory

Darwin (Larrakia) is the capital city of the Northern Territory, Australia.

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Düsseldorf

Düsseldorf is the capital city of North Rhine-Westphalia, the most populous state of Germany.

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Dead-end tower

A dead-end tower (also anchor tower, anchor pylon) is a fully self-supporting structure used in construction of overhead power lines. Transmission tower and dead-end tower are overhead power lines and pylons.

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Delta (letter)

Delta (uppercase Δ, lowercase δ; δέλτα, délta) is the fourth letter of the Greek alphabet.

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Deschambault-Grondines

Deschambault-Grondines is a municipality located in the Portneuf Regional County Municipality (RCM), in the Capitale-Nationale region, Quebec, Canada.

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Designer

A designer is a person who plans the form or structure of something before it is made, by preparing drawings or plans.

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Diamond Harbour

Diamond Harbour is a town and a municipality of the South 24 Parganas district in the Indian state of West Bengal.

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Dnipro

Dnipro is Ukraine's fourth-largest city, with about one million inhabitants.

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Duisburg

Duisburg (Duisborg) is a city in the Ruhr metropolitan area of the western German state of North Rhine-Westphalia.

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Dzerzhinsk, Russia

Dzerzhinsk (p) is a city in Nizhny Novgorod Oblast, Russia, located along the Oka River, about east of Moscow and west of Nizhny Novgorod.

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Egypt

Egypt (مصر), officially the Arab Republic of Egypt, is a transcontinental country spanning the northeast corner of Africa and the Sinai Peninsula in the southwest corner of Asia.

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Elbe

The Elbe (Labe; Ilv or Elv; Upper and Łobjo) is one of the major rivers of Central Europe.

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Electric power

Electric power is the rate of transfer of electrical energy within a circuit.

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Electric power distribution

Electric power distribution is the final stage in the delivery of electricity.

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Electric power transmission

Electric power transmission is the bulk movement of electrical energy from a generating site, such as a power plant, to an electrical substation.

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Electrical grid

An electrical grid (or electricity network) is an interconnected network for electricity delivery from producers to consumers.

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Electricity sector in Germany

Germany's electrical grid is part of the Synchronous grid of Continental Europe.

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Electrode line

An electrode line is used in some high-voltage direct-current (HVDC) power transmission systems, to connect the converter stations to distant ground electrodes.

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Ems powerline crossing

The 380 kV Ems Overhead Powerline Crossing is a power line crossing for two circuits on the Ems River South of Weener, Germany.

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Energy in France

According to the International Energy Agency, France has historically generated a very low level of carbon dioxide emissions compared to other G7 economies due to its reliance on nuclear energy.

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Energy in Germany

Energy in Germany is obtained for the vast majority from fossil sources, accounting for 77.6% of total energy consumption in 2023, followed by renewables at 19.6%, and 0.7% nuclear power.

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Energy in the United States

Energy in the United States is obtained from a diverse portfolio of sources, although the majority came from fossil fuels in 2021, as 36% of the nation's energy originated from petroleum, 32% from natural gas, and 11% from coal.

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Enerhodar

Enerhodar (Енергодар,,; Energodar) is a city and municipality in the northwest of Zaporizhzhia Oblast, Ukraine.

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Enerhodar Dnipro Powerline Crossing

Enerhodar Dnipro Powerline Crossing consists of two overhead power lines that cross the Kakhovka Reservoir on the Dnipro river.

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EPDM rubber

EPDM rubber (ethylene propylene diene monomer rubber) is a type of synthetic rubber that is used in many applications.

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Estonia

Estonia, officially the Republic of Estonia, is a country by the Baltic Sea in Northern Europe.

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Frustum

In geometry, a morsel; (frusta or frustums) is the portion of a solid (normally a pyramid or a cone) that lies between two parallel planes cutting the solid.

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Galesville, Wisconsin

Galesville is a city in Trempealeau County, Wisconsin, United States.

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Germany

Germany, officially the Federal Republic of Germany (FRG), is a country in Central Europe.

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Gin pole

A gin pole is a mast supported by one or more guy-wires that uses a pulley or block and tackle mounted on its upper end to lift loads.

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Government of the United Kingdom

The Government of the United Kingdom (formally His Majesty's Government, abbreviated to HM Government) is the central executive authority of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland.

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Guy-wire

A guy-wire, guy-line, guy-rope, down guy, or stay, also called simply a guy, is a tensioned cable designed to add stability to a freestanding structure.

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Guyed mast

A guyed mast is a tall thin vertical structure that depends on guy lines (diagonal tensioned cables attached to the ground or a base) for stability.

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Hamburg

Hamburg (Hamborg), officially the Free and Hanseatic City of Hamburg,.

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Hürth

Hürth is a town in the Rhein-Erft-Kreis, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany.

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Helicopter

A helicopter is a type of rotorcraft in which lift and thrust are supplied by horizontally spinning rotors.

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High voltage

High voltage electricity refers to electrical potential large enough to cause injury or damage.

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High-voltage direct current

A high-voltage direct current (HVDC) electric power transmission system uses direct current (DC) for electric power transmission, in contrast with the more common alternating current (AC) transmission systems. Transmission tower and high-voltage direct current are electric power transmission.

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Hinkley Point C nuclear power station

Hinkley Point C nuclear power station (HPC) is a two-unit, 3,200MWe EPR nuclear power station under construction in Somerset, England.

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Hoover Dam

Hoover Dam is a concrete arch-gravity dam in the Black Canyon of the Colorado River, on the border between the U.S. states of Nevada and Arizona.

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Huainan

Huainan is a prefecture-level city with 3,033,528 inhabitants as of the 2020 census in north-central Anhui province, China.

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Huddersfield Narrow Canal Pylon

The Huddersfield Narrow Canal Pylon, (National Grid tower designation 4ZO251B), is a 54.6 metres (179 ft) tall electricity pylon which stands with its feet over the Huddersfield Narrow Canal near Heyrod, Stalybridge, Greater Manchester, United Kingdom. Transmission tower and Huddersfield Narrow Canal Pylon are pylons.

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HVDC Three Gorges – Changzhou

The HVDC Three Gorges – Changzhou is an long bipolar HVDC transmission line in China for the transmission of electric power from the Three Gorges power plant to the area of Changzhou.

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Hydroelectricity

Hydroelectricity, or hydroelectric power, is electricity generated from hydropower (water power).

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Hyperboloid structure

Hyperboloid structures are architectural structures designed using a hyperboloid in one sheet.

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India

India, officially the Republic of India (ISO), is a country in South Asia.

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Inle Lake

Inle Lake, a freshwater lake located in the Nyaungshwe Township of Shan State, part of Shan Hills in Myanmar (Burma).

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Inoujście

Inoujście (Ihnamünde) is a former village in the administrative district of Gmina Goleniów, within Goleniów County, West Pomeranian Voivodeship, in north-western Poland.

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Insulator (electricity)

An electrical insulator is a material in which electric current does not flow freely.

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International Civil Aviation Organization

The International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO) is a specialized agency of the United Nations that coordinates the principles and techniques of international air navigation, and fosters the planning and development of international air transport to ensure safe and orderly growth.

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Interstate 4

Interstate 4 (I-4) is an Interstate Highway located entirely within the US state of Florida, maintained by the Florida Department of Transportation (FDOT).

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Interstate 77 in Ohio

Interstate 77 (I-77) in Ohio is an Interstate Highway that runs for through the state.

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Iran

Iran, officially the Islamic Republic of Iran (IRI), also known as Persia, is a country in West Asia. It borders Turkey to the northwest and Iraq to the west, Azerbaijan, Armenia, the Caspian Sea, and Turkmenistan to the north, Afghanistan to the east, Pakistan to the southeast, the Gulf of Oman and the Persian Gulf to the south.

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Kerinchi Pylon

The Kerinchi Pylon is a lattice-steel transmission tower located near Menara Telekom in Kerinchi, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. Transmission tower and Kerinchi Pylon are pylons.

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Khortytsia

Khortytsia (Хортиця) is the largest island on the Dnieper River, and is long and up to wide.

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Lattice tower

A lattice tower or truss tower is a freestanding vertical framework tower.

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Lääne County

Lääne County (Lääne maakond or Läänemaa, literally "Western land"; Wiek; Rotalia) is one of the 15 counties of Estonia.

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List of high-voltage underground and submarine cables

This is a list of high voltage (above 150 kV) AC electrical transmission lines.

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List of spans

The following is a list of spans, either used for overhead line crossings of rivers, sea straits or valleys, as antenna or for aerial tramways.

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Littau

Littau is a former municipality, and now part of the city of Lucerne, in the district of Lucerne in the canton of Lucerne in Switzerland.

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Live-line working

In electrical engineering, live-line working, also known as hotline maintenance, is the maintenance of electrical equipment, often operating at high voltage, while the equipment is energised.

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Lukoml Power Station

The Lukoml Power Station (Lukoml GRES, Lukomlskaya GRES, Lukomlskaya DRES, Лукомльская ГРЭС) is a natural gas-fired thermal power station located in Novolukoml, Vitsebsk Voblast, Belarus.

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M5 motorway (Hungary)

The M5 motorway (M5-ös autópálya) is a Hungarian motorway which connects Budapest with the south-eastern regions of the country, the cities of Kecskemét, Szeged, and finally Röszke on the Serbian border.

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Malaysia

Malaysia is a country in Southeast Asia.

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Mettlen–Lavorgo powerline

The Mettlen–Lavorgo powerline, also called the Lukmanier powerline, is the 400 kV three-phase alternating current high voltage electric power transmission line over the Lukmanier Pass in Switzerland, from Mettlen substation, next Inwil, about south of Hochdorf, to Lavorgo substation, next Lavorgo, about south of Faido.

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Mickey Mouse

Mickey Mouse is an American cartoon character co-created in 1928 by Walt Disney and Ub Iwerks.

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Mickey pylon

The Mickey pylon is a tall double-deadend pole-type 230-kV power line pylon in front of Osceola Substation, which is used by The Walt Disney Company division Reedy Creek Energy Services for the power supply of Walt Disney World near Orlando, Florida, and which was completed on February 15, 1996.

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Myanmar

Myanmar, officially the Republic of the Union of Myanmar and also known as Burma (the official name until 1989), is a country in Southeast Asia. It is the largest country by area in Mainland Southeast Asia and has a population of about 55 million. It is bordered by Bangladesh and India to its northwest, China to its northeast, Laos and Thailand to its east and southeast, and the Andaman Sea and the Bay of Bengal to its south and southwest.

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Optical attached cable

Optical attached cable (OPAC) is a type of fibre-optic cable that is installed by being attached to a host conductor along overhead power lines.

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Orinoco

The Orinoco is one of the longest rivers in South America at. Its drainage basin, sometimes known as the Orinoquia, covers ca 1 million km2, with 65% of it in Venezuela and the 35% in Colombia. It is the fourth largest river in the world by discharge volume of water. The nevertheless high volume flow (39,000 m3/s at delta) of the Orinoco can be explained by the high precipitation in almost the entire catchment area (ca 2,300 mm/a).

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Orlando, Florida

Orlando is a city in and the county seat of Orange County, Florida, United States.

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Orsoy, Germany

Orsoy, from approximately 1273 to 1974 an independent town, most recently within the Kreis Moers district, is today a district (officially a residential area) and one of four boroughs of the North Rhine-Westphalian town of Rheinberg on the left bank of the Lower Rhine in the Kreis Wesel district.

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Ostrówek, Mielec County

Ostrówek is a village in the administrative district of Gmina Gawłuszowice, within Mielec County, Subcarpathian Voivodeship, in south-eastern Poland.

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Overhead line

An overhead line or overhead wire is an electrical cable that is used to transmit electrical energy to electric locomotives, electric multiple units, trolleybuses or trams. Transmission tower and overhead line are pylons.

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Overhead line crossing

An overhead line crossing is the crossing of an obstacle—such as a traffic route, a river, a valley or a strait—by an overhead power line.

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Overhead power line

An overhead power line is a structure used in electric power transmission and distribution to transmit electrical energy along large distances. Transmission tower and overhead power line are overhead power lines.

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Overhead wire marker

Overhead wire markers are safety instruments applied to the overhead power lines marking transmission lines and ropeways along the flight path during the day.

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Połaniec Power Station

Połaniec Power Station is a coal-fired and biomass power station near Połaniec in Świętokrzyskie Voivodeship, Poland.

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Power station

A power station, also referred to as a power plant and sometimes generating station or generating plant, is an industrial facility for the generation of electric power.

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The Pro Football Hall of Fame is the hall of fame for professional American football, located in Canton, Ohio.

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Probostwo Dolne

Probostwo Dolne is a village in the administrative district of Gmina Lubanie, within Włocławek County, Kuyavian-Pomeranian Voivodeship, in north-central Poland.

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Pylons of Cádiz

The Pylons of Cádiz, also known as the Towers of Cádiz, are two 158 m (518 ft)-tall pylons supporting a double-circuit 132 kV three-phase AC powerline over the bay of Cádiz, Spain, running from Puerto Real Substation to the substation of the former Cádiz Thermal Power Station, situated on the peninsula upon which the city of Cádiz stands. Transmission tower and pylons of Cádiz are pylons.

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Pylons of Messina

The Pylons of Messina are two free-standing steel towers, the Sicilian one in Torre Faro and the Calabrian one in Villa San Giovanni. Transmission tower and Pylons of Messina are pylons.

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Rail transport

Rail transport (also known as train transport) is a means of transport using wheeled vehicles running in tracks, which usually consist of two parallel steel rails.

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Railway electrification

Railway electrification is the use of electric power for the propulsion of rail transport.

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Regów

Regów is a village in the administrative district of Gmina Baranów, within Grodzisk Mazowiecki County, Masovian Voivodeship, in east-central Poland.

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Riga

Riga is the capital, the primate, and the largest city of Latvia, as well as one of the most populous cities in the Baltic States.

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Riga Hydroelectric Power Plant Crossing Pylon

The Riga Hydroelectric Power Plant Crossing Pylon is an overhead powerline crossing of the Daugava River, near Salaspils in the Latvia. Transmission tower and Riga Hydroelectric Power Plant Crossing Pylon are pylons.

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Risti, Estonia

Risti is a small borough (alevik) in Lääne-Nigula Parish, Lääne County, in western Estonia.

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Royal Institute of British Architects

The Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA) is a professional body for architects primarily in the United Kingdom, but also internationally, founded for the advancement of architecture under its royal charter granted in 1837, three supplemental charters and a new charter granted in 1971.

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Saint Lawrence River HVDC Powerline Crossing

The Saint Lawrence River HVDC Powerline Crossing is the crossing of Hydro-Québec's Quebec-New England HVDC transmission line over (and later, under) the Saint Lawrence River between Grondines and Lotbinière, Quebec, Canada.

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Sargans

Sargans is a municipality in the Wahlkreis (constituency) of Sarganserland in the canton of St. Gallen in Switzerland.

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Scandinavia

Scandinavia is a subregion of Northern Europe, with strong historical, cultural, and linguistic ties between its constituent peoples.

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Shukhov Tower on the Oka River

The Shukhov Tower on the Oka River (also Dzerzhinsk High-Voltage Mast, Shukhov Oka Tower) is the world’s only diagrid hyperboloid transmission tower. Transmission tower and Shukhov Tower on the Oka River are pylons.

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Single-phase generator

Single-phase generator (also known as single-phase alternator) is an alternating current electrical generator that produces a single, continuously alternating voltage.

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Skagerrak (power transmission system)

Skagerrak is the name of a 1,700 MW high-voltage direct current (HVDC) transmission facility between Tjele (Denmark) and Kristiansand (Norway).

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Skolwin

Skolwin is a municipal neighbourhood of the city of Szczecin, Poland situated on the left bank of the Oder river, north of Szczecin Old Town and Middle Town, and south of the town of Police.

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Sognefjord Span

The Sognefjord Spans are the second, third, and fourth longest spans in the world situated east of Hermansverk, Norway and are part of different powerlines.

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Soviet Union

The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR), commonly known as the Soviet Union, was a transcontinental country that spanned much of Eurasia from 1922 to 1991.

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Steel

Steel is an alloy of iron and carbon with improved strength and fracture resistance compared to other forms of iron.

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Stobie pole

A Stobie pole is a power line pole made of two steel I-beams, joined by tie-bolts, and held apart by a slab of concrete. Transmission tower and Stobie pole are pylons.

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Stockbridge damper

A Stockbridge damper is a tuned mass damper used to suppress wind-induced vibrations on slender structures such as overhead power lines, long cantilevered signs and cable-stayed bridges.

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Straussee Ferry

The Straussee Ferry (German: Strausseefähre) is a passenger cable ferry that crosses the Straussee lake, near the town of Strausberg in Brandenburg, Germany.

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Structural engineering

Structural engineering is a sub-discipline of civil engineering in which structural engineers are trained to design the 'bones and joints' that create the form and shape of human-made structures.

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Structure

A structure is an arrangement and organization of interrelated elements in a material object or system, or the object or system so organized.

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Substation

A substation is a part of an electrical generation, transmission, and distribution system.

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Suez Canal overhead powerline crossing

The Suez Canal overhead powerline crossing is a major electrical power line built across the Suez Canal in 1998, located near Suez, Egypt.

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Sundhagen

Sundhagen is a municipality in Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, Germany, located in Amt Miltzow in the district of Vorpommern-Rügen.

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Suspension tower

In an electric power transmission line, a suspension tower is where the conductors are simply suspended from the tower, the mechanical tension being the same on each side. Transmission tower and suspension tower are pylons.

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T-beam

A T-beam (or tee beam), used in construction, is a load-bearing structure of reinforced concrete, wood or metal, with a -shaped cross section.

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Takehara, Hiroshima

Panorama of Takehara City center Aerial photograph of Takehara City center Taketsuru house in Takehara historic preservation district is a city located in Hiroshima Prefecture, Japan.

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Tarbela Dam

Tarbela Dam is an earth-filled dam along the Indus River in Pakistan's Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province.

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Tarchomin

Tarchomin is a neighborhood of Białołęka district, in northern Warsaw, Poland.

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The Economic Times

The Economic Times is an Indian English-language business-focused daily newspaper.

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Three-phase electric power

Three-phase electric power (abbreviated 3ϕ) is a common type of alternating current (AC) used in electricity generation, transmission, and distribution.

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Tower testing station

A tower testing station is a special plant for testing various design for towers for transmission lines and similar uses.

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Traction current pylon

A traction current pylon is a railroad pylon carrying at least one circuit for traction current. Transmission tower and traction current pylon are pylons.

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Transposition tower

In electrical power transmission, a transposition tower is a transmission tower that changes the relative physical positions of the conductors of a transmission line in a Polyphase system. Transmission tower and transposition tower are electric power transmission and overhead power lines.

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Truss

A truss is an assembly of members such as beams, connected by nodes, that creates a rigid structure.

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Tucuruí transmission line

The Tucuruí transmission line (Linhão de Tucuruí) is a hydroelectric power line that leads north from the Tucuruí Dam in Pará, Brazil and crosses the Amazon River.

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Tursko Małe

Tursko Małe is a village in the administrative district of Gmina Połaniec, within Staszów County, Świętokrzyskie Voivodeship, in south-central Poland.

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Ukraine

Ukraine is a country in Eastern Europe.

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United States

The United States of America (USA or U.S.A.), commonly known as the United States (US or U.S.) or America, is a country primarily located in North America.

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United States Department of Energy

The United States Department of Energy (DOE) is an executive department of the U.S. federal government that oversees U.S. national energy policy and energy production, the research and development of nuclear power, the military's nuclear weapons program, nuclear reactor production for the United States Navy, energy-related research, and energy conservation.

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Utility pole

A utility pole is a column or post, usually made out of wood or aluminum alloy, used to support overhead power lines and various other public utilities, such as electrical cable, fiber optic cable, and related equipment such as transformers and street lights. Transmission tower and utility pole are pylons.

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Venezuela

Venezuela, officially the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela, is a country on the northern coast of South America, consisting of a continental landmass and many islands and islets in the Caribbean Sea.

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Voltage

Voltage, also known as (electrical) potential difference, electric pressure, or electric tension is the difference in electric potential between two points.

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Walt Disney World

The Walt Disney World Resort (also known as Walt Disney World or Disney World) is an entertainment resort complex located about southwest of Orlando, Florida, United States.

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Weener

Weener is a town in the district of Leer, in Lower Saxony, Germany.

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West Thurrock

West Thurrock is an area, former civil parish and traditional Church of England parish in Thurrock, Essex, England, located 18 miles (28.1 km) east south-east of Charing Cross, London.

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WKSU

WKSU (89.7 FM) is a non-commercial educational radio station licensed to serve Kent, Ohio, featuring a public radio format.

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Wood

Wood is a structural tissue found in the stems and roots of trees and other woody plants.

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Wuhu

Wuhu is a prefecture-level city in southeastern Anhui province, China.

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Xinhua News Agency

Xinhua News Agency (English pronunciation),J.

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Yangtze River power line crossings

The Yangtze River power line crossings are overhead power lines that cross the Yangtze River in China.

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Young's modulus

Young's modulus (or Young modulus) is a mechanical property of solid materials that measures the tensile or compressive stiffness when the force is applied lengthwise.

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Zaporizhzhia Pylon Triple

The Zaporizhzhia Pylon Triple is a set of two triples of tall electricity pylons extending over the Dnieper river standing on a 27m rock in Zaporizhzhia, Ukraine.

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Zhoushan Island Overhead Powerline Tie

The Zhoushan Island Overhead Powerline Tie is a 220 kV three-phase AC interconnection of the power grid of Zhoushan Island with that of the Chinese mainland.

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400 kV Thames Crossing

The 400 kV Thames Crossing is an overhead power line crossing of the River Thames, between Botany Marshes in Swanscombe, Kent, and West Thurrock, Essex, England.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transmission_tower

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