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’Magic balls’ installed by drones may soon be revolutionizing the US power grid: 'Unrivaled quality at scale'
High-voltage power lines in the United States will soon be monitored by “magic balls” from Norway.
Heimdall Power is rolling out unique technology in the form of sphere-shaped sensors that have increased power-line capacity by 30% in Europe, according to a story on the tech from Electrek. “This summer … We were able to disconnect one of two parallel lines and ‘overload’ the other because we had full control of the temperature,” Trond Are Bjørnvold, department manager of Network Development at Arva in Norway, said in a Heimdall press release. That’s important because grid operators are worried about blackouts increasing in coming years due to severe weather and peak demand hours.
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