What's actually cool is I've never seen a drone install anything before. Closest thing is placing a bomb, which has an high amount of tolerance.
They say it can be installed without shutting down power. Think of all the things it skips, outages and the paperwork, working from heights and the paperwork, clearance zones and the paperwork. It's probably a 20 man team down to 10.
Cool project though, transmission costs account for a large proportion of energy delivery.
[0]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38983886 [1]: https://heimdallpower.com/us/arva-customer-story-magic-ball/
https://livrepository.liverpool.ac.uk/3005516/1/TPEL2436702%...
I think MIT had a patent for that. This could be the perfect use case for that too..?
A RTO in the US is a TSO that coordinates, controls, and monitors a multi-state electric grid. The voluntary creation of RTOs was initiated by FERC Order No. 2000, issued on December 20, 1999. RTOs typically perform the same functions as ISOs but cover a larger geographic area.