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ALPHA ENGINEERINGPower & Energy · Since 1979
Conductor gets sized once and then lives with that decision for forty years. Size it to today's load and the rebuild comes back as a capital project, usually at a worse time and a worse price. Size it against a growth curve nobody checked and you have paid for capacity that never shows up. We model the growth first and build the structures, sag and tension around it, for transmission, distribution and fiber. Staking sheets come out of AlphaStake, which we wrote ourselves, but if your crews already work in Futura, Partner or MapWise we will work in yours so the packets look the way your people expect.
When the load grows, you already have the capacity in the ground and you are not paying to rebuild the same mile of line.Size the new line to match nearby comparable lines. Easy to justify, but that conductor was sized for its load history, not this line's future.
Defensible when this segment's load profile really does match the lines you're comparing against.Size to current peak with little margin. Lowest cost now, but no room for the growth or interconnections likely over the line's life.
Fine on a segment where load is flat and likely to stay that way.Terrain, sag-tension, and load growth modeling size the conductor and structures for the load the line will actually carry over its lifespan.
What you want when the line has to carry growing or changing load for forty years.All of it is built to be handed to a crew or a contractor and worked from without a phone call back to the office.
We review what you send and follow up about what the sizing decision hinges on, before anyone stakes anything.
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