Xcel Energy and Dairyland Power Cooperative are currently working together to build a new transmission line across southeast Minnesota, connecting to Wisconsin and the rest of the Upper Midwest, but ...

Uninterrupted electricity is the need of the hour. As an essential part of modern life and the modern economy, everything from household applications like lighting and refrigeration to larger ones ...

For years, the electric utility industry has been questioning whether to use overhead or underground systems for transmission of power using high-voltage transmission lines. Issues driving this ...

This story was produced by Grist and co-published with Verite News. When a winter storm knocked out Texas’ power grid in 2021, the scale of the devastation it wrought was exacerbated by a singular ...

Certain kinds of projects can lead to easy money for utility companies, while others require a long and difficult approval process. So it shouldn’t be surprising when the companies choose the easy ...