AstroElectric's photos with the keyword: fiberglass

An UGLY, soulless post-2000 APS pole, though it's not a common APS specification if I recall, since they use mostly grey steel poles. TEP (Tucson Electric Power) has these same monstrosities popping up all over their grid. NOTE: This pole has since been removed since this section of the line has been put underground during 2013. Kind of ironic and a good thing to happen to this pole!

A comparison shot of good CL&P construction and... This actually makes me concerned about WMECo, NSTAR, and PSNH, I'm thinking this a CL&P stand-alone decision. I'm actually a bigger fan of UI at this point! However, who knows how long it'll take until they catch on. :( Also, it looks like Google updated (rather several years late in updating the lower res imagery from '07-'09...) a lot of imagery finally. Makes me curious on the other nearby utilities and any possible change of standards.

UGLY!!!

I've always loved those corner poles with those chained brown disks, which looks to have originally been 27.6kV? No longer standing as of this year. : (

This pole was replaced with the fiberglass arm junction pole. Certainly a happier looking pole to me!

APS bit the dust around 2000 when new crossarms were fiberglass and the poles steel. I'd take the APS recent 12kv armless construction poles (which at least looks more easy on the eye) over this garbage. >_>

This seriously hurts my eyes just looking at it, and personally I think I'd rather see them begin burying the lines than change a line into poles all like this. CL&P was my top favorite utility (particularly pre-1990's actually!) and except for the period pre-2014, I'm no longer a CL&P fan. : (

This is a former 27.6/13.8kV line. It's currently 13.8(*2)kV. One of the new UGLY fiberglass-crossarm CL&P poles. Is this the death of CL&P becoming nothing more than a typical "modernizing" utility? Either way it pains me to see this happen, because I really thought they were different... :'(