The Biden administration is announcing it will spend $1.3 billion of new federal funding to help create three new, massive electrical transmission lines in the Southwest and New England, in an ...

The U.S. Department of Energy found that 70% of U.S. transmission lines are more than 25 years old in its last network-infrastructure review in 2015. Lines typically have a 50 year lifespan.

In Wisconsin, the centerpiece of the plan is a massive 765-kilovolt transmission line that would extend from Minnesota to southeastern Wisconsin and into Illinois.

To get there, though, the grid needs some upgrades, which also couldn’t come at a better time. The U.S. electrical grid is aging (70% of transmission lines are over 25 years old) and outmoded ...

The nation's aging, vulnerable power grid and the threat of natural disasters and terrorist activity make a long-term collapse that could leave millions of Americans in the dark a growing ...

A “massive blackout” that hit much of Puerto Rico early Tuesday may keep the U.S. territory in the dark through New Year’s Eve and beyond, according to the governor and the private energy ...

BLAKELY – PPL Electric Utilities will apply to begin construction of the first segment of Project Compass – a major new transmission line with a connection in Blakely. The company will … ...