This design doesn’t look like much, but that’s the point. The slender pole can appear as a tall black lance or as a thin sliver from a different angle. With a convex exterior skin that reflects its ...

TenneT has developed a new concept for high‑voltage lines with a magnetic field intensity that is significantly lower than that of existing lines. The innovative design is called Wintrack and consists ...

Chris Huhne, Britain’s Energy and Climate Secretary, opened a display featuring scale models of six striking designs for new electricity pylons to the public at the Victoria & Albert Museum. The ...

National Grid has erected its first T-pylon in Somerset, Southwest England, demonstrating a new design for an electricity pylon. The world’s first T-pylon, according to National Grid, will be one of ...

Danish company Bystrup has won a contest to find a new look for electricity pylons with its innovative T-Pylon design PA A T-shaped design has been announced the winner of a competition for the new ...

The Bystrup T-Pylon beat five other finalists in a contest run by the Department of Energy and Climate Change, National Grid and the Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA). National Grid will ...

Bystrup’s innovative T-Pylon design has been unanimously agreed by the judging panel as the winner of the Pylon Design Competition run by the Department of Energy & Climate Change, National Grid, and ...

An architecture and design firm called Choi+Shine has submitted a design for the Icelandic High-Voltage Electrical Pylon International Design Competition which proposes giant human-shaped pylons ...

A Danish company has won a contest to find a new design for electricity pylons, the Department of Energy and Climate Change (DECC) said today. The T-shaped design beat five other finalists in the ...

From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The Independent is on the ground when the story is developing. Whether it's investigating the financials of Elon Musk's pro-Trump PAC or ...

It is a common sight in the British countryside - hated by some, but ignored by most. And although it may seem like the humble electricity pylon is doing its job pretty well, a Government-run ...

For decades, electricity pylons have towered over our countryside - functional, but not necessarily nice to look at. But that is about to change after a competition to design the pylon of the future ...