If you have paid close attention to power lines, you might have noticed metal spring-like structures close to the transmission towers. These spring-like structures are known as lightning arresters, ...

In the middle of last Saturday's glorious and sunny afternoon, an extensive Cleveland Public Power outage left a huge swath of the west side without electricity. That outage, which was received with ...

ABB has developed a specialist surge arrester retrofit service that enables the transformer circuits in outdoor high voltage substations, typically up to 400 kV, to be upgraded to a high level of ...

DURING the last five years an investigation has been made of the discharge currents of a number of 38,000-volt lightning arresters. The transmission system on which these arresters were installed is ...

Larry Bates was putting in some late hours recently, scrambling to protect Manassas City Hall's computers from the "Blaster" computer worm, a particularly nasty invader making the rounds. Then, around ...

Officials have said the move to use a “nature-gifted protective measure” follows the understanding that tall palm trees act ...