A council has voted to oppose a plan to roll out 37 miles (60km) of electricity pylons across the Derbyshire countryside.

Pylons are an integral part of everyday life, and whilst many people complain about their “ugliness”, they perform essential functions that enable the population to have electricity in their homes and ...

At least seven large electricity pylons collapsed onto a highway near the South African capital of Pretoria, causing a multiple-vehicle crash, city authorities and emergency services said Monday. Two ...

In 1,000 historic photographs of electricity pylons shared by the Science Museum in London, a complex symbol of human progress rises above the landscape. Images from the albums of photographs of ...

An architecture and design firm called Choi+Shine has submitted a design for the Icelandic High-Voltage Electrical Pylon International Design Competition which proposes giant human-shaped pylons ...

The new pylons are 36 meters high-considerably shorter than the previous steel lattice pylons-and comprise T-shaped masts and diamond-shaped “earrings” made up of insulators and wiring. The design ...

Electricity pylons might be a vital part of the UK's power infrastructure, but they sure ain't the prettiest of things, especially when towering over otherwise unspoiled countryside. Their design hasn ...

Security personnel, wearing a camouflage uniform, stand guard near a damaged electrical pylon near the village of Chaplynka in Kherson region, Ukraine, November 22, 2015. REUTERS/Stringer By Jason ...

Take an everyday electricity pylon, flip it upside-down, and stand it on its end. Suddenly the everyday becomes extraordinary. Alex Chinneck, the theatrical 30-year-old British artist behind hovering ...

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 ...

MOSCOW/KIEV (Reuters) - Crimea was left without electricity supplies from Ukraine on Sunday after pylons carrying power lines to the Russia-annexed peninsula were blown up overnight. It was not ...