Abstract
This Chapter covers the description of maintenance of Overhead Transmission Lines (OHTL). Due to difficulties encountered by most Line Owners in building new OHTL and even with upgrading existing lines, the present Chapter is to understand issues and technologies related to the safe maintenance and operation of existing transmission lines. Since most of the world’s power utilities’ OHTL are approaching their design life or beyond, a good maintenance strategy is important to ensure their integrity.
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Leblond, A., Lindsey, K.E. (2017). Maintenance. In: Papailiou, K. (eds) Overhead Lines. CIGRE Green Books. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-31747-2_16
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