The ASCE manual provides a unified standard for foundation design, reducing variability and unnecessary costs across utilities. It promotes modern approaches like Reliability-Based Design (RBD) to ...

For over a century, wood pole structures have been used to support overhead powerlines. Over time, as the utility industry expanded, the basic wood pole structure has evolved, but regardless of ...

Aging US transmission lines, if not replaced, threaten grid reliability, national security, and economic competitiveness, creating an urgent need for modernization, resilience, and interregional ...

A pair of Connecticut companies are seeking approval to bury a 100-mile transmission line in the bed of the Columbia River to carry solar and wind energy to the Portland-Vancouver area. On Wednesday, ...

Over the next decade, Oregon’s need for clean energy is expected to grow exponentially thanks to rising demand for electricity from data centers, heat pumps, electric cars and state climate mandates.

This story was produced by Grist and co-published with Verite News. When a winter storm knocked out Texas’ power grid in 2021, the scale of the devastation it wrought was exacerbated by a singular ...

The Gazette offers audio versions of articles using Instaread. Some words may be mispronounced. ITC Midwest and two other companies are moving forward with an Upper Midwest transmission project that ...

Iowa OKs $221 million high-voltage transmission project, despite injunction, to help power new Cedar Rapids data centers.