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Ohio Edison is completing projects, inspections and conducting equipment maintenance in its northeast and central Ohio territory that are intended to enhance service reliability.
Cost-effective helicopter patrols are completing inspections on nearly 4000 miles of FirstEnergy transmission lines located in the Ohio Edison area. The inspections are designed to look for damaged wire, broken cross arms, failed insulators, and other hardware problems not easily detected from the ground. Any potential reliability issues identified during the inspection will be addressed.
On the ground, the inspections include using "thermovision" cameras to capture infrared images that can detect potential problems with Ohio Edison substation equipment such as transformers and capacitors. By identifying...