Marissa Wenzke is a journalist based in Los Angeles. She has a bachelor's degree in political science from UC Santa Barbara and is a graduate of Columbia Journalism School. More than 20,000 households ...

The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers and West Virginia Department of Environmental Protection are managing containment and ...

A transformer failure on Chicago's Northwest Side caused several thousand residents to lose power overnight as temperatures struggled to dip below 80 degrees. The outage happened in the city's Belmont ...

Cleanup efforts are expanding at R.D. Bailey Lake after mineral oil from an Appalachian Power transformer failure in Clear Fork moved downstream into the Guyand ...

LA GRANDE — Classes at La Grande Middle School looked a little different than normal on Monday, May 6, due to a power outage. Oregon Trail Electric Cooperative alerted the school district at 11:40 a.m ...

Transformers are critical assets, and any failure can have severe and long-lasting consequences. In the most extreme cases, a transformer failure caused by a lack of proper maintenance can result in ...

LOUISVILLE, Ky. — A power outage caused by equipment failure startled several people in NuLu Thursday afternoon. As of 6:30 a.m. on Friday, LG&E and KU's outage map said there are no longer any ...

Power system failure analysis and diagnostics constitute a critical field within electrical engineering, addressing the reliability and safety of the complex networks that underpin modern society. In ...

Case study examines a common PV inverter failure that can drive uncommon issues in the field — namely, damage to the AC protection equipment from DC fault currents for short periods during transformer ...