The power grid is a complicated beast, regardless of where you live. Power plants have to send energy to all of their clients at a constant frequency and voltage (regardless of the demand at any one ...

Have you heard recommendations to use a particular termination in particular situations for good signal integrity? Have you ever wondered how to incorporate terminations in your design? While there ...

The National Electric Safety Code (NESC) includes a clause sometimes referred to as the “5-mA Rule,” which states: For voltages exceeding 98 kV ac to ground, either the clearances shall be increased ...

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 concept of Space–time modulated (STM) media has been the subject of intensive research in recent years. Space–time modulation which means varying martial parameters in time and space can break ...

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 ...

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 ...

Inspecting and monitoring long-distance transmission lines has always been both costly and dangerous for utilities. Networks that stretch across remote, rugged terrain make traditional methods like ...

Reliable energy distribution is considered a cornerstone of modern society, and the maintenance of power transmission lines (PTLs) plays a vital role in achieving this goal. The accurate and rapid ...