Many of California’s Most Destructive Fires Were Caused by Power Lines
Officials are probing whether electrical equipment sparked the Los Angeles fires. Such infrastructure has ignited vast ...
Gridware’s boxes literally listen to power lines to find outages
Gridware's sensors listen for sounds that the company’s software has been trained to identify as different hazards to the ...
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Maryland needs more power lines. So why does everybody hate this one?
The electricity interests behind a proposed power line that would cut through 70 miles of mostly rural Maryland are finding ...
Did power lines help start the L.A. fires? What we know.
Hundreds of homes in the Altadena area still had power when a fire erupted there, according to a grid-monitoring company and ...
Power lines, involved in previous California fires, will be under scrutiny again.
Strong winds did prompt Edison and another utility, San Diego Gas & Electric, to begin cutting power to customers to reduce ...
Waukegan, Illinois city workers suffer electric shock from power lines
Two city workers from Waukegan were rushed to the hospital Thursday morning after they were shocked by power lines.
Hurst Fire may have been caused by damaged power line, says electrical company Edison International
A downed power line may have caused the Hurst Fire in Los Angeles, officials say. The damaged line was found in the area ...
Can’t existing rights-of-way be used for new power lines? | READER COMMENTARY
What about a route that mostly uses existing rights-of-way? Another challenge might be that the existing towers are too “full ...
Many of California’s most destructive fires sparked by power lines
A fire in 2017 that broke out after power lines collided burned for almost 40 days. Read more at straitstimes.com.
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Did power lines help start the L.A. fires? What we know.
It has become routine for utilities in California to shut off power during “red-flag events” when weather conditions pose the risk of winds downing electrical lines that could ignite vegetation.