Conference Agenda

Session

B2-6: Innovative Tower Solutions for High-Altitude, Aging, and Renewable Grids

Time:

Tuesday, 30/Sept/2025:

1:30pm - 3:30pm

Location: Plenary Room

Session Topics:

B2 Overhead lines

Presentations

1:30pm - 1:45pm

Challenges faced and mitigation thereof to facilitate Green Power & Nuclear Power Flow in Gujarat region, India

Chandan Kalra, Amit Mahajan, Rajesh Suri, Kandarp Pandey

Sterlite Power Transmission Limited, India

1:45pm - 2:00pm

Conductor Optimization for +/-350kV HVDC Transmission system for evacuation of 13 GW of RE power from renewable energy parks in Ladakh, India

Chandra KANT, Ashish Kumar SINGH, Nikhil JHA, Manoj Kumar SINGH, Abhay KUMAR, Vamsi Rama Mohan BURRA

POWER GRID CORPORATION OF INDIA LIMITED, INDIA

2:00pm - 2:15pm

The Milano-Montalto ± 525 kV HVDC Link: Technical challenges and sustainability

Luca Buono, Gaia Leone, Francesco Palone, Lorenzo Papi, Roberto Spezie, Pierluigi Vacante

Terna Rete Italia, Italy

2:15pm - 2:30pm

Development Trend Analysis and Key Technologies of UHV AC Transmission System in China

Weilin Hou, Shicong Ma, Yiran Jing, Tiezhu Wang, Bo Li

China electric power research institute, China, People's Republic of

2:30pm - 2:45pm

Navigating the Energy Transition: A Comparative Study of Aging Power Grids in India and the USA

Vipin Jacob Joseph, L K Khajkumar

Power Grid Corporation of India Limited, India

2:45pm - 3:00pm

High-Voltage Iconic Towers

Maha Alsabban¹, Mudassar Rasul¹, Tobias Schuelein¹, Grain Adam¹, Janos Toth², Birgir Hallgrimsson³, Thorgeir Holm Olafsson³, Jin Choi⁴, Thomas Shine⁴

¹ENOWA-NEOM, Saudi Arabia; ²Enginomix, United States; ³Norconsult, Norway; ⁴Choi+Shine Architects, Netherlands

3:00pm - 3:15pm

Structural damage monitoring system for transmission towers based on artificial intelligence

Halyson da Costa Silva¹, Leonardo Hautrive Medeiros¹, Tiago Bandeira Marchesan¹, Vitor Cristiano Bender¹, Daniel Pinheiro Bernardon¹, Tiago dos Santos¹, Alexandre Aparecido Buenos¹, José Batista Ferreira Neto², Diogo José Damasceno do Espirito Santo², Daliane Lanzarin²

¹Federal University of Santa Maria, Brazil; ²Santo Antônio Energia, Brazil

3:15pm - 3:30pm

Development and deployment of VibraTorre equipment

Carlos Alexandre DO NASCIMENTO¹, Antonio ASSIS¹, Maurissone GUIMARAES², Giovani BRAGA², Alysson BARBOSA³, Andre MELO³, Alan DEIVIDE³, Paulo PINTO³

¹Cemig GT, Brazil; ²Cemig D, Brazil; ³Trixel, Brazil