SAN FRANCISCO (KPIX) -- The sprinkling of rain on Sunday night proved too much for some Bay Area power lines. The first rainfall of the autumn season caused multiple PG&E power poles to catch fire, in ...

Recent advances in materials science have underscored the critical role that electric fields play in influencing surface flashover and charge accumulation in insulating materials. This body of ...

In the latest problem to vex BART and its riders, an electrical “flashover” early Friday morning — a short circuit on the third rail — sparked a day full of detours and delays as trains were first ...

Diablo Canyon nuclear power plant’s Unit 2 was returned to service Saturday after an electrical problem on Sunday. The unit automatically went offline Sunday after a flashover, or electrical arc, ...

KUALA LUMPUR: The massive power blackout on Sept 1 affecting five northern states was due to an electrical flashover on the 275KW transmission lines, which resulted in the malfunction of the power ...

About 1,200 residential customers in southwest Pasadena lost power Sunday when an electrical flashover caused a nearly three-hour-long blackout, a fire official said. The outage occurred about 10:45 a ...

High voltage direct current (HVDC) lines transmit power over long distances in Manitoba, Canada. Back in the 1970s, when Manitoba Hydro first energized the Bipole 1 and II HVDC lines, the utility ...

Several weeks ago, I happened to be out at a fire department training center as the department trained with thermal imagers. The only training they planned to conduct was to get the flashover ...

Incident happened at Tom Nan Clach Wind Farm near Inverness. Worker was seriously injured following electrical flashover. HSE guidance is available. A wind farm management services company has been ...