Engineers in Australia have found a new way to make power-pole insulators resistant to fire and electrical sparking, promising to prevent dangerous pole-top fires and reduce blackouts. Pole-top ...

Currently, Ameren employs 67 people who do nothing but inspect its 1.3 million distribution and transmission poles and associated insulators, guy wires and other equipment, a spokesman says.

We Energies says an insulator on a power pole near 97th and Burnham failed, causing a live power line to fall to the ground. The line touching the ground caused the sparking and the fire.

When electricity “tracks” off the insulator and through the slush, it can heat up the wooden pole and cause a small fire, said Richard Medina, the vice president in charge of the city-owned ...

The dinner-plate-sized insulator was similar to the millions that connect power lines to poles and towers across the United States. It perished during a reporter’s recent visit to the Lenox ...

Power was out for residents from Diamond Ridge to the Old Sterling Highway for about an hour on Monday afternoon. The incident, which took place on the Old Sterling, also caused a small fire. The ...

Faced with a shortage of ceramic insulators, linesman from the sub-station pass the power transmission cable through the plastic bottles and tie it to a metal cross-bar on the electricity pole.

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The fire that incinerated four cars and a Dunkin’ Donuts restaurant May 7 began with a tiny crack in a porcelain insulator high atop a utility pole along Route 4 in Farmington. Through that ...

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Engineers in Australia have found a new way to make power-pole insulators resistant to fire and electrical sparking, promising to prevent dangerous pole-top fires and reduce blackouts. Pole-top ...

Due to the extreme shortage of ceramic insulators, the electricity department’s Sernabatim substation office in Goa was forced to use plastic bottles as insulators. According to a report in The ...