Power restored to thousands of Austin Energy customers affected by outages Friday

Thousands of Central Texas residents experienced power outages Friday morning.Austin Energy reported outages affecting 7,071 ...
Knoxville News Sentinel

What to know about a Driftless area high-voltage power line proposal

The MariBell project is a 140-mile, 765-kilovolt power line that would run from Marion, Minnesota to Bell Center, Wisconsin. It's being developed by Dairyland Power Cooperative, in La Crosse, and ...
KTVZ

Crane hits Pacific Power line, causes SE Bend blackout after Central Electric Co-Op ends outage that affected 8,000

BEND, Ore. (KTVZ) – About 1,300 Pacific Power customers in SE Bend lost power for a time Friday morning, shortly after Central Electric Cooperative finished restoring power to about 8,000 homes, ...
Berkshire Eagle

What happens when lightning strikes a power line? A world-class laboratory in Lenox recreates weather to improve the power grid

LENOX — They say lightning never strikes the same place twice. At the Electric Power Research Institute’s Transmission and Distribution Laboratory, lightning strikes as many times as it likes — just ...