Concrete pylon

Concrete pylon

A concrete pylon, or concrete pole, is an electricity pylon made from reinforced concrete. Concrete pylons are manufactured at the factory and put up at the power line's right of way.

Because of its durability and ease of manufacturing and installation, many utilities in recent years prefer the use of concrete and steel tube pylons over wood and lattice steel pylons for new power lines and pylon replacements. Fact|date=November 2007

Concrete pylons are used in Germany normally only for lines with operating voltages below 30kV. In exceptional cases concrete pylons are used also for 110kV-lines, as well as for the public grid or for the railway traction current grid. In Switzerland, concrete pylons with heights of up to 59.5 metres ( world's tallest pylon of prefabricated concrete at Littau) are used for 380kV-overhead lines. Concrete pylons are also used in Canada.


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