This design doesn’t look like much, but that’s the point. The slender pole can appear as a tall black lance or as a thin sliver from a different angle. With a convex exterior skin that reflects its ...

Chris Huhne, Britain’s Energy and Climate Secretary, opened a display featuring scale models of six striking designs for new electricity pylons to the public at the Victoria & Albert Museum. The ...

Britain’s electrical grid could get a radical new look, after a T-shaped pylon was named as the future of electricity transportation. The innovative, lightweight concept – created by Danish ...

For nearly a century, a system of turbines, substations, wires and more has powered everything from your kettle to entire cities. We take a look at 11 of its most essential elements ...

TenneT has developed a new concept for high‑voltage lines with a magnetic field intensity that is significantly lower than that of existing lines. The innovative design is called Wintrack and consists ...

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 National Grid is abandoning a new pylon project which has cost a whopping £17 million because they are too noisy. The so-called T-pylons design was revealed in 2015 as a 'vision for our electric ...

The architect behind these unusual-looking pylons says they were designed to look as if they had grown out of the environment, rather than standing out as incongruous, as so many manmade forms are.