America’s power grid is entering 2026 with mounting stress, and experts warn that a handful of states face the sharpest ...
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Those bright orange spheres strung along certain power lines are not decorative, and they are not there to keep the wires from sagging. They are precision safety devices, engineered to make some of ...
Ice accumulation poses the biggest threat to electric service this weekend. Even small amounts of buildup can drag down ...
On a cloudy day in mid-July, a crew of technicians carried a shiny metal orb, about the size and weight of a kid’s bowling ball, under a 110-kilovolt transmission line running near Hamburg, Germany.