T&D Buyer's Guide

Did you know 1 out of every 200 transformers experiences failure each year? The safety and cost risks of an unexpected failure can be catastrophic. Dynamic Ratings products and services provide real-time data to help you make smart asset management decisions. Online monitors give you the confidence to extend the life of existing assets using real-time data. Monitors evaluate the equipment in your substation (transformers, circuit breakers, switchgear, and more) and measure their performance to make sure everything is working properly. If something looks out of place, an alarm will notify you of the problem. This information allows utilities to optimize maintenance plans and the performance of their assets to changing system requirements. Learn how we can help at www.dynamicratings.com.

For decades, our team has distributed most of the leading manufactures equipment in the powerline industry. We have also built and designed some of the most durable, reliable, and trusted tools and equipment in the electrical utility industry. We always go the extra mile to provide not only some of the best customer service but to create some of the most well-tested products possible. We have invested heavily in advanced technology to ensure that every product we produce is second to none. We proudly offer repair services for a wide array of electrical utility tools and equipment, including warranty repairs for many of the most common brands in the industry. We also house some of the most expansive technical testing services for our products including an in-house rubber goods testing lab, ground testing, and hot stick testing.

Sediver is the pioneer and industry leader in high voltage toughened glass insulation technology for more than 70 years. Our outstanding track record confirms the quality of our products, with 600 million toughened glass insulators in service, on both AC&DC lines, in 150 countries and every climatic condition. In North America, nearly 40M  Sediver glass insulators have been providing reliable service to more than 100 utilities since more than 50 years.

Sediver Research Center has developed state of the art smart solutions for real-time monitoring of leakage current & predictive maintenance. Sediver technical assistance team helps support our  customers by providing T/ line insulation design expertise and testing of aging insulators for end-of-life diagnostics.

Sediver offers a full range of:

• Cap & Pin toughened glass insulators for AC & DC Transmission lines (ANSI & CSA standards), with M&E Ratings up to  200 000 lbs (860 KN).

• Glass suspension insulators for distribution lines 15-69KV,

• RTV coated glass insulators (Sedicoat) for polluted environments.

• Glass Insulators for insulated HV/T-line shield wires.

• Large diameter glass insulators for mitigation of bird droppings on suspension strings.

Testing facilities in the USA

Sediver's West Memphis laboratory regularly performs such work, providing US utilities with clear factual diagnostics.

• State-of-the-art testing equipment

• Sediver’s unique expertise in the evaluation of the results

• Full support from Sediver’s extensive R&D Team

• Experience with complex case studies for refurbishment/upgrades of AC and DC lines

We are a manufacturer of identification products for Electric utilities, Telecommunication companies, Pipeline companies and OEM's. For 70 years we have made pole tags, cable markers, data plates, substation signs and all things identification.  Tech Products, Inc. provides the most durable products in our industries with brand names like EVERLAST, Tech-3D, FASTTAG, and TechBrite.  We are also a service company - an information provider. We work as a team member with a customer to find a solution for their identification need.

SISCO provides real-time communications and integration solutions to electric energy industry customers. We specialize in IEC 61850, CIM, COMTRADE, C-RAS for wide-area protection, and GOOSE monitoring tools to manage the complexity of electric power systems while building a flexible Smart Grid integration architecture that is robust and scalable. Products include source code, off-the-shelf interfaces, remedial action systems, and special protection systems. Services include consulting, systems integration, application development, training, support, and maintenance.

Tech Products, Inc. Is your source for quality identification products to the utility, pipeline and (OEM) original equipment market including, utility pole markers, valve tags, machinery data plates and safety signs for substations and transmission towers.

Our Everlast® brand is in use on many of the fiber optic cables, pipelines, and distribution systems throughout the northern and southern hemisphere. It is a unique product that does not use ink to convey its message. In fact, our first customer, Delaware Electric Coop is still using the product to mark their poles today. 

Our Fasttag miniature cable marker product line has been used by the US military on its battleships, the energy industry to identify underwater cable and pipes on offshore oil rigs and many of the fiber optic cables of the cable industry.

Since 1905, G&W Electric has been a leading provider of innovative power grid solutions including the latest in load and fault interrupting switches; reclosers; sensors; system protection equipment; power grid automation; transmission and distribution cable terminations; and joints and other cable accessories. G&W Electric is headquartered in Bolingbrook, Illinois, U.S.A., with manufacturing facilities and sales support in more than 100 countries, including Canada, Italy, China, Mexico, Brazil, India, and Singapore. We help our customers meet their challenges and gain a competitive edge through a suite of advanced products and technical services.

In 1897, ACA sold the first aluminum for current-carrying application. That sale was the beginning of a relationship between ACA and the electrical industry that has prevailed for nearly a century. Today, ACA Conductor Accessories is the world^^s foremost supplier of aluminum conductor accessories to the entire utility industry. Yet, we are more than simply a manufacturer of metal products... we offer a depth of engineering, production, training and testing services not available from any other source, at any price. With ACA, you get the product performance you need for reliability, and the know-how to apply it. ACA expertise, born from beginnings of the electric age... it^^s an edge that makes a big difference. The entire ACA organization is ready to listen to your needs and provide a better technical solution for improved system reliability. We will be happy to provide you with detailed literature and answer specific questions about any of our products and services. Contact us today for more information and the name of the ACA field representative near you.