In many cases, however, deciding to shut off power isn’t as simple as it might sound. We asked Tim Lieuwen, executive director of the Strategic Energy Institute at Georgia Tech, about the risks and ...

Opponents argue that transmission line co-owner PacifiCorp's plan to serve a single industrial customer invalidates eminent domain authority because the energy will not be used for the broader public ...

Electricity is the movement of electrons between atoms. Its "discovery" is credited to a host of people, not the least of whom is an American legend, genius, and one of its founding fathers, Benjamin ...

Have you noticed brightly colored spherical objects affixed to some of the power lines overhead? There are several theories about these orbs. Are they meant to weigh down the lines in high winds? Or ...

State regulators, knowing that old transmission lines could set off wildfires, proposed a safety rule in 2001 that would have forced Edison and other utilities to remove abandoned lines unless they ...