When power outages occur — whether they’re due to natural disasters or other causes — you may hear unfamiliar words and terminology as officials explain the situation or provide updates. To provide ...

On a sweltering July day this past summer, straphangers trying to get home on the J train were left to sweat it out on the platform. A 60-year-old power transformer in the subway system’s ...

An early Sunday fire near the now-inactive Three Mile Island nuclear power plant damaged a large transformer at a nearby substation but did not threaten radioactive facilities. That’s according to ...

On a cold December night in 2022, coordinated attacks on two electrical substations in Moore County, North Carolina, left nearly 45,000 people without power for five days. Among them were thousands of ...

Power company Met-Ed is trucking in emergency transformers as more than 3,400 people remain without power in Adams County. Originally, Met-Ed estimated that power would be restored by 7 p.m. Monday.

One week after a catastrophic fire at the North Hyde electrical substation plunged the UK’s flagship Heathrow Airport into chaos, questions are mounting about what went wrong—and what the incident ...

By James Amoh JuniorTema, Feb. 2, GNA – The Ghana Grid Company Limited (GRIDCo) is set to commence upgrade works on a power transformer at its Afienya Substation in the Greater Accra Region.It is part ...

Like many North Carolinians, you may have never considered electric substations before last week’s attack in Moore County. Their thickets of metal coils, bars and boxy transformers blend into ...