overhead power line
Sign in to saveAlso known as overhead powerline, aerial powerline, overhead line, OHL
above-ground structure for bulk transfer and distribution of electricity
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Vinony's link graph records 909 inbound references to overhead power line, and connects out to electric power transmission, railway electrification system and transmission tower.
The entry is geolocated on the map in landmark, across 2 mapped points.
It is catalogued under topics including Commons link from Wikidata, Electric power distribution and Overhead power lines.
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Wikidata facts
- Subclass of
- high-voltage power line
- Part of
- electrical grid
- Image
- Reiter unter Hochspannung - panoramio.jpg
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- different from
- electrical cable
- Commons category
- Overhead power lines
- OpenStreetMap tag
- power=line
- short name
- OHL
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Encyclopedic overview
330 kV overhead power lines
An overhead power line is a structure used in electric power transmission and distribution to transmit electrical energy along large distances. It consists of one or more conductors (commonly multiples of three) suspended by towers or poles. Since the surrounding air provides good cooling and insulation along long passages and allows optical inspection, overhead power lines are generally the lowest-cost method of power transmission for large quantities of electric energy.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “overhead power line” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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