With the increasing frequency of natural disasters including hurricanes, tornadoes, wildfires and winter storms, electric utilities have proactively transitioned overhead lines to underground circuits ...

With land-use and permitting issues becoming more complex and expensive, cable might be close to being price-competitive with overhead transmission. That would particularly apply in highly populated ...

“Months later, thousands of (insert city here) residents still without power.” From Ventura County, California, to Puerto Rico, we’ve become too comfortable with these headlines from disaster-ridden ...

Utility linemen have limited options when it comes to cutting high-capacity, high-strength ACSR (Aluminum Conductor Steel Reinforced) cable commonly used in overhead power lines, or the "guy wire" ...

The big picture: Germany this week opened a six-mile stretch of "eHighway" on the Autobahn that's capable of supplying power to hybrid semi-trailer trucks via a proprietary overhead cable system. It ...

An electrified highway is theoretically the most efficient way to eliminate truck emissions. But the political obstacles are daunting. Overhead wires providing electricity to this truck cover three ...

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