HOUSTON, Texas (KTRK) -- It is day 10 for thousands of CenterPoint Energy customers across the Greater Houston area who are still without power. Some of them live in neighborhoods with buried power ...
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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 ...
CHESTERFIELD COUNTY, Va. — Kelly Barton has witnessed decades of changes in his Chesterfield neighborhood since his parents first purchased their home in the early 1980s. But one recent upgrade has ...
Storm-proofing as little as 1 per cent of the power lines in an electricity grid could slash the chance of hurricane-induced blackouts by between fivefold and 20-fold, a simulation suggests. The ...
Two severe storms within two months caused widespread power outages in Springfield, impacting tens of thousands of City Utilities customers. While burying power lines could mitigate future outages, ...
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Anaheim will have moved all of its city-owned power lines in its highest fire-risk areas underground by 2026, a milestone in the city’s multi-decade effort to harden its utilities and reduce the risk ...
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 ...
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 ...
The cost of a gargantuan new plan to upgrade the regional electric grid with more than a dozen transmission lines across the Upper Midwest could top $20 billion. And that still might not be enough.