Modern transmission line projects face several challenges with different priorities than projects in the past. There is now more emphasis on reducing environmental impacts, producing aesthetically ...

The wide ranging energy bill Governor Reynolds submitted to the legislature includes a provision that’s been the subject of legal wrangling for the past five years. The bill would let the state’s ...

Recurring flooding on the Platte River in Nebraska presents a demonstrated risk to several high-voltage transmission line towers owned by Omaha Public Power District (OPPD). Protecting three tower ...

ALBANY, N.Y. (WRGB) — New York lawmakers have begun passing parts of the state’s late budget, but one bill included in the final deal is leaving some rural communities on edge. The RAPID Act, which ...

The Bureau of Land Management (BLM) announced on Tuesday that it has approved the construction of a 732-mile high-voltage transmission line across the Western U.S. that will help transport renewable ...

A long-planned transmission line that would link Texas’ wind-heavy grid to Mississippi — along with much of the Midwest — is facing new obstacles as Louisiana lawmakers move to tighten the state’s ...

A crew works on a transmission line tower outside Boardman, Ore. Oregon lawmakers have removed provisions easing the construction of transmission lines on farmland from legislation that expedites ...

As officials try to determine the cause of a wildfire that has burned an estimated 7,000 structures in and around Altadena, investigators keep returning to one place: an electrical transmission tower ...