Cal Poly Humboldt study finds key power line related risks for wildfires and outages

Vegetation growing near power lines is a major driver of both wildfires and widespread power outages in California, and new ...
Daily Breeze

Useless high-voltage power lines heighten risk of sparking wildfires

Across drought-prone California, high-voltage power lines that haven’t been needed in years hang unused from steel towers — a fire risk hiding in plain sight. One has been accused of sparking ...
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel

What to know about a Driftless area high-voltage power line proposal

The MariBell project is a 140-mile, 765-kilovolt power line that would run from Marion, Minnesota to Bell Center, Wisconsin. It's being developed by Dairyland Power Cooperative, in La Crosse, and ...
MLive

50 miles of new high-voltage power lines planned in Michigan, with more on the way

More big power line projects are coming to Michigan, starting with 50 miles of high-voltage lines that will cut across three counties around Lansing. ITC Michigan, the owner of much of the Lower ...