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It sounds almost like an exaggeration until you are the one standing in a dark substation at three in the morning, looking at a repair bill that reaches six figures. We spend a lot of time as engineers worrying about load balancing and high-level grid stability, but the reality is that a single squirrel or a stray bird doesn't care about your sophisticated monitoring software. When an animal bridges the clearance between a grounded component and a live phase, the results are

Birds often interact with overhead transmission lines in ways that, unfortunately, can result in electrocution.