CHARLOTTE — The security of your power is being called into question amid the rising attacks on the power grid nationwide. Channel 9 has previously reported physical attacks are up 79% in just a year.

Policymakers in several states are looking to shore up the security of the electrical grid after a series of attacks at substations in recent months exposed vulnerabilities and knocked out power for ...

MADRID, May 14 (Reuters) - An abrupt loss of power generation at a substation in Granada, followed by failures seconds later in Badajoz and Seville, triggered an unprecedented blackout across Spain ...

Drive along nearly any major road in the United States and it won’t be long before you see evidence of the electrical grid. Whether it’s wooden poles strung along the right of way or a line of ...

ALBANY – National Grid revealed this week that its four substations that shut down during the historic blizzard that paralyzed Western New York in December, causing thousands to lose power, were ...

When the lights go out, most people assume it’s due to a storm. Not necessarily. This year, Americans suffered from an uptick in malicious attacks on all 16 sectors of critical infrastructure (CI).

With just a few shots from a high-powered rifle, an unknown gunman knocked out an electric power substation in rural south-central Utah last month, cutting off electricity to 13,000 customers for a ...

Most utility companies do an excellent job of using equipotential bonding to protect lineworkers who are working aloft. Historically, they've been less diligent about implementing up-to-date ...

Distributed energy storage (DES) is an enabling technology for the future power grid. Largely consisting of advanced electrochemical batteries, DES systems increase the efficiency of large centralized ...

It is a common misunderstanding that there are lower voltage levels inside a substation fence than outside of it, when in reality, substation workers face just as serious risk of electrocution. The ...

The utility Eversource broke ground Tuesday on what it called the country’s first fully-underground electrical substation. The 35,000-square-foot facility is part of a larger $1.8 billion energy ...