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ATC employees help students power up for Future City Competition
American Transmission Co. employees participated as judges in STEM Forward’s Wisconsin Regional Future City Competition, held at the Milwaukee School of Engineering on Saturday, Jan. 26, 2019. More than 200 students from 56 teams attended the event. Future City is a project-based learning program where students in sixth, seventh and eighth grade imagine, research, design […]
Nesting platforms a major component of our Avian Protection Program
It is cold and snowy in most of American Transmission Co.’s service area, and though many birds have flown south for the winter, they will be back before we know it to begin spring nesting. Bird nests on utility equipment can pose safety problems for the birds and jeopardize the reliability of the transmission system. […]
Milwaukee Bucks’ 3-pointers greening up Wisconsin schools
The Milwaukee Bucks are halfway through the 2018-19 season, and their current record has the Bucks stampeding to the top of the Eastern conference. Their 3-point shots are on the rise too, having scored 316 at home thus far. “As an organization, I think we watch the Bucks home games […]
ATC awards $58,600 amongst 27 recipients for planting projects
Twenty-three communities to plant outside transmission line rights-of-way; four recipients will plant inside the right-of-way, benefitting pollinators PEWAUKEE, Wis. – American Transmission Co. has awarded collectively $58,600 to 27 recipients across its service area to plant trees and low-growing vegetation through two programs – the Community Planting and Pollinator Planting programs. Now in its sixth […]
