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 ...
Like other things that you might notice attached to power lines, weights installed there by utility companies have a specific ...
The United States is quietly approaching a major inflection point in its infrastructure story: much of its electric transmission grid is entering old age. Power lines crisscrossing the country rarely ...
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.