Approximately 10,700 new power line repairers are expected to be in demand from 2023 to 2033 due to industry growth and retirements. Many retiring lineworkers choose early retirement or transition ...

Level 4 apprentice power line technician. First in her family to work in the line trade. Her great grandfather was an electrician. Enjoys hunting, fishing, riding snowmobiles, dirt bikes and ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... For seven years, Michael Polsky has been trying to build a high-voltage power line from the windswept prairies of Kansas to the ravenous electrical grids of ...

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 ...

The transmission line to Troutdale, Oregon, is a source of tension as utility companies try to satisfy growing demands for power in the Northwest. Patrick Borunda and his dog Rosemary at his home in ...

Evergy plans to build a new power transmission line across southern Kansas to send electricity to Oklahoma and Missouri. The project is part of a larger effort by the Southwest Power Pool to improve ...

A proposed 765-kilovolt power line would stretch from southeast Minnesota through Wisconsin's Driftless region. Backers call the line, which would be the highest voltage in Wisconsin, the "backbone" ...