Wood Utility Pole (Part 2)”, Daniel Mays, John Xu, Ryan Powanda, Sara Timtim, Stanford, 2009 Recent natural disasters have vindicated these trends. Hurricane Harvey, for example, destroyed 5,000 ...

MINNEAPOLIS (KFGO) – Xcel Energy plans to invest billions to upgrade aging utility poles in Minnesota. Over two-thirds of utility poles are more than 50 years old. The aging poles have a rising ...

Charles Guerry, the utility director for the City of Newberry, South Carolina has been using steel poles for seven years, with 250 in service and another 150 forthcoming. He said that the city ...

A spokesperson confirmed that the utility pole was part of an ongoing project. They said they weren’t entirely to blame. “The locations of the new poles were shared in advance with City of ...

A stretch of East Euclid Avenue in Des Moines was temporarily closed Friday afternoon after a semi-truck hit a utility pole. Des Moines police say repair crews were called to the scene shortly ...

Xcel faces challenges with old utility poles More than two thirds of the utility poles throughout Minnesota are at least a half-century old and records show their failure rate dramatically ...

About four dozen Yes on F signs were taken off utility poles and city property this week. Signage, including political ones, cannot be legally placed on the city’s power and phone poles.

Steel poles are sturdier, more robust and are "designed to withstand most weather events that could threaten utility poles and ... when the collapse of one pole can pull down poles next to it ...

Port Arthur — A driver escaped without injury after his SUV hydroplaned in heavy rain, crashed into a utility pole and plunged into the water near the Rainbow Bridge Port Arthur police rushed to the ...

Emergency crews responded to the single-vehicle wreck in the area of Bell Road and Chesterfield Drive at 3:21 a.m. Police said the car sustained major damage after it crashed into a utility pole ...

ROCHESTER, N.Y. — A car slammed into a utility pole on Culver Road overnight, leaving drivers to navigate in the darkness. News10NBC was at the scene near Master Street around midnight.

Over two-thirds of Minnesota's utility poles are over 50 years old ... which it plans to use to fund an effort to reinforce pole tops as part of a program expected to launch in late 2024.