Storm-proofing as little as 1 per cent of the power lines in an electricity grid could slash the chance of hurricane-induced blackouts by between fivefold and 20-fold, a simulation suggests. The ...

Look closely at a solar panel, and you'll see a series of thin metallic lines running across the surface. They're not there to look nice — they have a specific purpose. Those lines are called the grid ...

On a cloudy day in mid-July, a crew of technicians carried a shiny metal orb, about the size and weight of a kid’s bowling ball, under a 110-kilovolt transmission line running near Hamburg, Germany.