Pennsylvanians, along with a lot of other people, will see higher electric bills this summer. But don’t blame your local power company just yet. Soaring “capacity costs” are the culprit, and they’re ...

From its factory a mile from the Pacific in Huntington Beach, California, TS Conductor makes 1,000 miles a year of new-fangled, revolutionary high voltage power line. That might sound like a lot, but ...

If you have paid close attention to power lines, you might have noticed metal spring-like structures close to the transmission towers. These spring-like structures are known as lightning arresters, ...

The U.S. East Coast is an ideal location to capture this power, but there’s a problem: getting electricity from ocean wind farms to the cities and towns that need it. The U.S. Department of Energy and ...

With temperatures climbing over 100 in much of the state, the Texas electric grid set an all-time record for energy demand Tuesday. Despite the heat wave, the Electric Reliability Council of Texas has ...

Northwest U.S. utility Puget Sound Energy (PSE) has joined with Norway-headquartered Heimdall Power on a dynamic line rating (DLR) pilot project in Washington state. The companies on October 22 said ...

There is a common sentiment among the chattering class that energy made from solar panels and windmills is good and energy generated by fossil fuels is bad. Nature is seen as holy, and fossil fuels ...

Electricity is the movement of electrons between atoms. Its "discovery" is credited to a host of people, not the least of whom is an American legend, genius, and one of its founding fathers, Benjamin ...

A multistate power outage Thursday left as many as 95,000 customers in Wyoming without electricity, according to some reports, and may have caused a fire at the Dave Johnston coal-fired power plant ...