For more than a decade, a plan to string a high-voltage power line from the wind-swept plains of western Kansas to cities and ...

Building a 345 kV (kilovolt) transmission line from Holmen, Wisconsin to Middleton, Wisconsin was a study in overcoming some unique and interesting challenges throughout its 180 mile (289.7 km) length ...

For years, the electric utility industry has been questioning whether to use overhead or underground systems for transmission of power using high-voltage transmission lines. Issues driving this ...

The 3.2-GW, 125-mile Ten West Link transmission line, which will carry clean energy from Arizona to California, was constructed in 14 months but was in planning and permitting for more than a decade.

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 ...

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 ...

Construction crews install large-diameter water pipeline segments during a transmission main replacement project in rural Central Texas. The Bistone Municipal Water Supply District is planning a ...

Three interregional transmission lines connecting six U.S. states will receive the first $1.3 billion tranche of $2.5 billion in federal funding designated under the Transmission Facilitation Program ...