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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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, ...

An air gap flashover occurs between an energized conductor and a tree during high-voltage testing. Following the Northeast blackout of Aug. 14, 2003, the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission and, ...

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 ...

Power has been restored to over 80,000 homes in south-east Victoria after a fire in high-voltage power lines near the Hazelwood power station this morning. A spokesman for electricity provider SP ...

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 ...