When power outages occur — whether they’re due to natural disasters or other causes — you may hear unfamiliar words and terminology as officials explain the situation or provide updates. To provide ...

Over the next decade, the introduction of distributed resources and an increase in customer expectations will require utilities, public utility commissions and other stakeholders to reinvent the ...

Drive along nearly any major road in the United States and it won’t be long before you see evidence of the electrical grid. Whether it’s wooden poles strung along the right of way or a line of ...

The installation of two transormers at The Empire District Electric Co. substation at 26th Street and Pearl Avenue on Tuesday was a step toward completing the Joplin utility’s infrastructure ...

The June 2025 outage, caused by a failure at the Germantown substation near Littlestown, lasted for several days and impacted thousands of customers. The need for the new substation was identified in ...

An early Sunday fire near the now-inactive Three Mile Island nuclear power plant damaged a large transformer at a nearby substation but did not threaten radioactive facilities. That’s according to ...

Like many North Carolinians, you may have never considered electric substations before last week’s attack in Moore County. Their thickets of metal coils, bars and boxy transformers blend into ...