Colorado ranchers, with Boebert’s backing, are in uproar over feds’ high-voltage power corridor: “The trust is broken”
Resistance is building in southeastern Colorado to a proposed corridor for a high-voltage transmission line that the U.S.
Edison towers in the Altadena fire zone had known ‘ignition risk’ and needed repairs, records show
Southern California Edison knew for years that its transmission towers around Eaton Canyon posed a risk of sparking a fire, ...
There’s a cheap, easy way to supercharge America’s power grid
There’s a cheaper, faster way to expand power grid capacity without waiting on massive new infrastructure projects.
Innovators prime creaky US power grid to lift higher loads
The United States' power grid has been singled out as a glaring weakness within its power system, with aging lines and ...
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Alternative Power Plays: The U.S. Power Grid Is Struggling – What Needs To Change Now
The U.S. electric grid is experiencing unprecedented demand growth driven by data centers, manufacturing, and increased electrification. On this episode of Alternative Power Plays, hosts Alan Seltzer ...
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What happens when lightning strikes a power line? A world-class laboratory in Lenox recreates weather to improve the power grid
Researchers use that power to simulate a strike of lightning on a power transmission line or conductor, explained Andrew Phillips, vice president of transmission and distribution infrastructure for ...
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Southern Colorado farmers, water advocates continue fight against Karman Line annexation
Farmers protest Karman Line annexation The resolution, passed during the district's Feb. 19 board meeting, "underscores their grave concerns regarding the detrimental impacts of additional water ...
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Drone inspections of power lines under way
The Energy Central Power Industry Network® is based on one core idea - power industry professionals helping each other and advancing the industry by sharing and learning from each other. If you have ...
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Generator partially restores power to Ashland while repairs continue on transmission lines
YEAH, AND ACTUALLY I WAS HAVING A GLASS OF WINE. AND MY MUSIC STOPPED. AND NO LIGHTS, NO POWER. THE TOWN IN THE DARK. AFTER A WIRE FAILURE AT ONE OF THE TOWN’S MAIN TRANSFORMERS, CAUSED SOME ...
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Bill would help make power lines more efficient, get more wind and solar on the grid
There’s so much wind and solar energy being proposed in the U.S. that there’s not enough power lines to get that energy where ...
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Altus Power Announces New Project in Superior, Colorado
STAMFORD, Conn.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Altus Power (NYSE: AMPS), the largest commercial-scale provider of clean electric power, today announced the operationalization of a 1.4 MW rooftop solar project ...
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Power company announces next-gen technology to protect grid from growing threats: '[It's like] tens of thousands of microphones'
It starts when an "optical interrogator" is connected to a fiber-optic line, shown in a Prisma digital rendering hanging above the power cables. "The Interrogator transmits optical pulses that ...