Picture this heavyweight prize-fight match up: engineering’s logical and rational approach to problem solving versus the sometimes-street brawling style of public policy development. Put the two in a ...

In January, the Eaton fire destroyed more than 9,000 buildings and led to 19 deaths in Los Angeles County. Estimates predict the fire caused billions of dollars in damages. The U.S. Department of ...

B. Don Russell wasn’t thinking about preventing a wildfire when he developed a tool to detect power line problems before they cause equipment failures, blackouts or even deadly accidents. The ...

Residents in the Los Angeles County community of Sylmar said they once again heard popping noises and a loud explosion. Once again, they saw an orange ball of fire erupt, this time on Jan. 7 below a ...

Days after the Eaton Fire in Los Angeles first ignited, firefighters observed that power lines operated by Southern California Edison were live and starting new fires, radio traffic obtained by NPR ...

LANSING, MI - A pair of massive projects bringing nearly 100 miles of new high-voltage power lines that cut through the heart of Michigan’s Lower Peninsula have cleared a key hurdle on the long road ...

TURNOUT AT THE CITY MEETING THERE TONIGHT. YEAH, GUYS, CITY OFFICIALS ACTUALLY HAD TO MOVE THE MEETING OUT OF CITY HALL AND HERE TO THIS NEARBY EVENT CENTER TO ACCOUNT FOR THE INFLUX OF PEOPLE FROM ...

Utilities across the U.S. are installing thousands of miles of 765 kV transmission lines, exceedingly becoming the backbone of our high voltage grid. Driven by rising demand from data centers and AI ...

Rocky Mountain Power is proposing to build a 45-mile-long, 345-kilovolt transmission line from the Spanish Fork substation in Mapleton to the Mercer substation in Eagle Mountain, a project which the ...