Xcel Energy has announced retirement of one of its three coal units at the Sherburne County Generating Plant, or Sherco, with a goal to deliver 100% carbon-free electricity in Minnesota by 2040. The ...

This summer, after nearly 20 years of planning, permitting and lawsuits, construction finally launched on a new electrical transmission line set to run nearly 300 miles across five Oregon counties and ...

Download the full pdf of this article, which includes the inline equations and diagrams. Discussion continues at the national level about power grid upgrades to support increased electrification. In ...

The Oregon Supreme Court has upheld that state’s Energy Facility Siting Council decision granting Idaho Power permission to move forward with a 290-mile, 500-kilovolt transmission line known as ‘B2H’ ...

If approved by the Virginia State Corporation Commission, the 765-kilovolt line would span 115 miles through as many as nine counties from Campbell to Culpeper, and would have towers as tall as the ...

The novel approach avoids costly and sophisticated equipment, while also enabling automated close-range inspection of transmission lines Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) are now widely used for remote ...

Building transmission lines in the U.S. is like herding cats. All of the stakeholders in the construction of a new line — utility companies, regulators, landowners — have to come to an agreement, and ...

Passive intermodulation (PIM) distortion arises when non‐linearities and imperfections within electrical connectors and transmission lines cause the intermodulation of signals, leading to spurious ...

AEP Texas will construct a 765-kV transmission line to enhance electricity delivery in the Permian Basin, supporting regional growth. AEP Texas is preparing to construct the Howard-Solstice ...

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 ...