The history of the electric power system starts a few decades after the establishment of the first telegraph lines across the US. The term lineman was first used to describe the workers who set up the wooden poles and hung the telegraph lines in the 1840s. As the first telephone…
Live working, also known as LW, allows failure-preventive interventions and possible maintenance work on transmission lines without de-energizing to avoid power outages on the electricity network, hence increasing stability. The practice has many technological and economic advantages and more favorable accident statistics than de-energized methods. The operation and maintenance of…