"Highland Township deputies responded to the 5300 block of North Milford Road on Friday after an employee arrived at the DTE electrical power substation to discover someone stole six 100-foot coils of aluminum cable since last he was at the site March 4."
With the ongoing volatility of copper pricing creating a major concern for the telecommunications industry as telecoms operators traditionally use copper ground wire for network grounding and bonding, CommScope Inc. has developed a copper-alternative grounding wire designed to deter copper theft and lower maintenance costs for telecoms and data applications.
An
incredible 38% of all water produced in emerging market countries is lost to
leakage from poor infrastructure, waste, and theft. Smart infrastructure aimed
at addressing this problem could prove to be the most significant solution to
water scarcity and has the potential to save $12.3 billion each year if fully
implemented.
We are putting on a new roof & the price of copper is really adding to the price of the roof. The snow slides alone are over $7,000. Is there something that we can use that looks like cooper and is still corrosive-resistant, but is less expensive?
"We are putting on a new roof & the price of copper is really adding to the price of the roof. The snow slides alone are over $7,000. Is there something that we can use that looks like cooper and is still corrosive-resistant, but is less expensive? "
"MANY of Jamaica's law enforcers are not aware of it yet, but thieves have been stepping up their game of stealing cables from leading telecommunications firms, then swapping them for guns, an investigation by the Jamaica Observer has uncovered."
Quick
Take: Smart
grid sales in South America are still relatively modest... but they are poised
to hit significant numbers once they finally begin. As you will read below,
South America is unlikely to be dominated by smart meters, as was the case in
North America. (Even though energy theft is worse than in any other region, a
situation that smart meters could help to improve). Instead, distribution
automation will lead the way.
Industrial railways company Transnet Freight Rail has resorted to using a worthless copper called tiger wire to fight this crime. This copper looks like ordinary copper, but has a contaminant that makes it a brittle metal when it has been melted.
We have to look into declaring copper as precious, or our economy will not be able to grow," said the Minister of Communications, Dr Ivy Matsepe-Casaburri, at the official opening of black-empowerment cable manufacturer Malesela Taihan Electrical Cable's new telecommunications cable manufacturing facility in Vereeniging.
The renewable technology has become so popular that police in California are seeing a massive increase in stolen panels from around the more than 33,000 installations in the state.
CommScope, Inc. will supply the Bishop Hill Wind Farm in Henry County, Illinois with its GroundSmart(TM) Copper Clad Steel solution, an alternative to solid and stranded copper that is increasingly in demand by utilities for its cost-efficiency and anti-theft characteristics. CommScope will provide 1.7 million feet of GroundSmart copper clad steel grounding wire to the project this year--the largest GroundSmart application to date. The Bishop Hills Wind Farm will include approximately 130 wind turbines. Developers of Bishop Hill said that they see GroundSmart as a simple solution to reducing projects costs without compromising the system's integrity. Copper clad steel is specifically designed to disperse fault currents and lightning strikes at a lower total cost of ownership compared to pure copper.
A Sheriff’s Office in Colorado is investigating the near-fatal electrocution of a Denver-area man while he was allegedly attempting to steal wire from atop a power pole.