The power sector is actively undergoing research and testing to provide insight and solutions into how to mitigate fire risk and other complications across the energy system. One such effort is ...

Austin Energy partnered with engineering firm 1898 & Co. to study the feasibility and cost of burying overhead power lines. A second study, focused on hardening existing overhead lines in areas ...

SPOKANE, Wash. — Inland Power will spend $410 million over the next decade to bury 500 miles of existing overhead power lines underground in an effort to reduce wildfire risk and improve electrical ...

ARLINGTON, Va., May 14, 2025 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Data compiled and analyzed by the Electrical Safety Foundation International (ESFI) shows that the most significant category of workplace electrical ...

Why aren’t power lines underground? It’s a recurring question as power is restored and months of cleanup begin following Tropical Storm Helene’s destructive march through Aiken County. It’s a question ...

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Pacific Gas & Electric — one of the nation's largest utilities whose equipment has sparked some of California's deadliest wildfires — wants to bury power lines in some of its most at-risk areas to ...

COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (KRDO) -- Colorado Springs Utilities (CSU) is in the final month of a project it started in March, moving a mile of overhead power distribution lines to under a stretch of ...

(Updated on 8/18/23) After a late July tempest plunged roughly 35,000 Arlington residents into darkness, ARLnow posed a pressing question to Virginia’s largest electric utility: Why not move all power ...

AUSTIN (KXAN) — After a 2023 February ice storm led to hundreds of thousands of Austinites losing power, Austin City Council members voted to move forward on a resolution that asked the city to look ...