Huge swathes of “unspoilt” countryside in the heart of Wales are being threatened by Ed Miliband’s clean power plans, campaigners have warned. A string of high-voltage power lines are set to be built ...
At least seven large electricity pylons collapsed onto a highway near the South African capital of Pretoria, causing a multiple-vehicle crash, city authorities and emergency services said Monday. Two ...
Foul play is suspected in a massive power outage across the South of France on Saturday that has hit the final day of the Cannes Film Festival. Local media is reporting that a fire at an electricity ...
Nobody likes to see the view being spoiled by power lines, but they're often a necessary part of modern infrastructure. Perhaps if they could be turned from an eyesore into a focal point, even the ...
A new line of towering electricity pylons cutting through rural Kent has been outlined by National Grid. But campaigners have warned the series of pylons to connect Kent to offshore wind farms would ...
LONDON — The U.K. government is looking at plans which would effectively wipe out electricity bills for most households living near new electricity pylons. It is one policy currently being considered ...
Oct 14 (Reuters) - A minimalist Danish design has won a competition to find a new electricity pylon for Britain, to replace the latticed steel transmission towers that have dotted the landscape since ...
The UK will need to build more pylons, including in areas where people do not want them, communities have been warned. Emma Pinchbeck, who has been appointed as the new chief executive of the ...
Surging energy costs may be blighting many British companies, but for the monopolies feeding electricity around the nation’s ...
Residents of East Anglia fear that planned power lines for offshore wind projects will blight their rural idyll. Pylons running across a farm in East Anglia, England. National Grid, Britain’s ...