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I think they are just getting the lines out of the way of the river reopening.
This came up before and is incorrect. Where I worked for a local govt, we had homeland security do a security review, the results were classified as protected critical infrastructure information and not subject to public disclosure. But bid docs are considered public,
Maybe a dumb question, but I was taught never to not ask them...
If I had to guess, they did not use "dynamite". This is lazy journalists at work. Most likely, they used JetCord (linear shaped charge), or multiple wraps of det cord to cut the cables.
Sounds like maybe just the opposite of what I was thinking then. Instead of reducing peak from utility they maybe sending excess to the utility pretty much at all times?210904-1339bEDT
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The U of M main power plant was constructed a long time ago, and probably powered a large part of the main campus. There was no North Campus at that time.
Some details are:
The CPP is a combined cycle cogeneration power plant which includes seven steam boilers totaling 1,000,000 pounds of steaming capacity and 46 megawatts of electric generation capacity. The CPP team operates and maintains the facility to ensure we are compliant with the federal, state and local Environmental & Safety regulations. We are a proactive team who strive for continuous improvement by applying the Facilities and Operations principles of being Respectful, Collaborative, Solutions-Based and Proactive into our daily work.Utilities Distribution » Utilities Website
Utilities Distribution consists of the Tunnel Shop and Water, Wastewater and Storm. The Tunnel Shop is responsible for operating and maintaining roughly 6 miles of underground structures that house low pressure steam, high pressure steam, domestic hot water, condensate, and compressed air...
Central Power Plant Expansion
The University of Michigan is expanding its Central Power Plant (CPP) to enhance power reliability and reduce greenhouse gas emissions (GHG), in accordance with a recommendation by the 2015 Preside…
List of power stations in Michigan - Wikipedia
I would say the U of M main campus power plant is for base load, as is the Parke-Davis North Campus power plant. and that DTE supplies peaking power. But in some buildings DTE is going to be base power.
.And there are a lot of emergency generation units that are not generally powered. Probably not even for peaking.
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Those cables are under a lot of tension, when they give they are going to be moving like a bat out of hell, in both directions, or in whatever directions the resultant force vectors are pointing. No one in their right mind wants to be in a basket cutting through the final strand that makes everything go "Pop!" The springback force on the tower is going to be non-trivial too, I would think.
New 345kV line was run near where I live not so many years ago. IIRC they pulled them all at same time when tensioning them, probably for good reason. I think I recall seeing them pull all the conductors at same time even on some local distribution line construction though, maybe not needed so much for strain related issues but rather is just quicker and easier to do so.
