The electric power distribution system in the U.S. has over 55 million miles of power lines with over 180 million utility poles. Utility poles line our streetways, and highways and carry power to ...

WHITE HOUSE, Tenn. (WSMV) - A downed electrical pole cut power to hundreds of residents in the White House area early ...

Engineers in Australia have found a new way to make power-pole insulators resistant to fire and electrical sparking, promising to prevent dangerous pole-top fires and reduce blackouts. Pole-top fires ...

In addition to pole replacements, the project will include the installation of new transformers, insulators, crossarms, ...

LUBBOCK — A decayed utility pole that broke, causing power wires to fall on dry grass in the Texas Panhandle, sparked the state’s largest wildfire in history, a Texas House committee has confirmed.

OKLAHOMA CITY (KFOR) – Power was restored to around 800 OG&E customers in one northwest Oklahoma City neighborhood on Monday. The area went dark Sunday afternoon after a power pole snapped in half.

Idaho Falls Power started routine inspections and testing of power poles Wednesday, according to a press release. For the next three weeks or so contractors will be entering backyards with power poles ...

LAKE STEVENS — The birds are attacking the local power grid. They’re not practical jokers or extremist saboteurs. No, they’re woodpeckers, likely looking to nest or feed in wooden power poles. The ...