Dear Overhead Transmission Design Members,We would like to invite you to our OTD 33155 A State-of-the-Art Review of HTLS Conductor Technologies Contractor Selection Call scheduled on March 12th, 2025 at 11:00 AM EST.Agenda:The purpose of this call is to request the OTD members to review the proposals saved here: Proposals and discuss member feedback for each proposal.The outcome of this meeting is to decide which contractor is eligible to be awarded for this project with unanimous member voting, and then CEATI will move forward with the project initiation call (PIC).Participants: CEATI & OTD membershipWe look forward to your participation!

Please mark your calendars for the Wildfire Mitigation and Resiliency Working Group Meeting scheduled on Wednesday, March 12th at 3:00 PM ET.Meeting Agenda:Wildfire Mitigation and Resiliency Working Group Scope FinalizationWildfire Mitigation Plan Benchmarking Initiative ReviewRoundtable DiscussionSuggested Next StepsPlease feel free to share this registration link with other members of your organization.Looking forward to your participation!

Dear Overhead Transmission Design, Stations Equipment and Power System Planning and Operations Participants,We would like to invite you to attend the Grid Resiliency Working Group Kick-off Meeting scheduled on Thursday, March 20th at 11:00 AM EST. Please see below for more information on registration and event details. Background:This working group has invited participants from the Overhead Transmission Design (OTD), Power System Planning and Operations (PSPO) and Stations Equipment (SE) interest groups at CEATI to attend the kickoff meeting. The agenda of the meeting is to review the scope and terms of reference of the working group and discuss any feedback members shall have on their end.We look forward to your participation!

We would like to invite you to an end-of-project webinar on OTD 33143: Impact of Climate Change and Adaptation to Climate Extremes in Overhead Line Design, presented by Abdollah Shafieezadeh on Tuesday, March 25th from 2:00 PM to 3:00 PM ET.Webinar Abstract:The increased frequency and severity of climatic extremes over the past few decades have been partly attributed to climate change. However, engineering practices and standards for transmission infrastructure assume weather and climate extremes will remain stationary over the long term. This assumption may not be valid under a changing climate. In this context, the objectives of this project are (1) to analyze the current state-of-the-art in science and practice vis-à-vis strategies for determining future loads under the assumptions of a stationary environment as well as under nonstationary climate change effects, (2) to develop methods and provide guidelines for projecting extreme wind and ice loads, and the associated uncertainties, and the subsequent impacts on load estimations for transmission lines in the industry codes/standards for different return periods, and (3) to examine recent frameworks developed for infrastructure design under climate change effects and provide guidelines specifically for the application of adaptive frameworks for the design of overhead transmission lines. This guideline would be helpful to utility companies in determining climatic loads under changing conditions with acceptable degrees of confidence, assisting them with the cost-effective design of new and upgrade of existing overhead lines.We look forward to your participation in this project webinar!Thank you!