Increasing demand from the tech industry threatens to max out generation capacity in a 13-state region. Consumers are furious ...

The year has ended, but the energy transition keeps chugging along. In 2024, clean energy deployments reached new heights in the U.S., with Texas and California proving that huge amounts of solar and ...

The head of the nation’s grid reliability authority called for more electricity generation. Transmission reform alone will not solve the U.S. electric grid’s ongoing reliability issues, with more ...

The modern United States runs on an invisible machine of wires, transformers, data centers, and control rooms. If that ...

The U.S. transmission grid isn’t growing fast enough to meet the country’s skyrocketing demand for power. That’s making electricity more expensive and less reliable — and it may prevent new data ...

The Kauaʻi Island Utility Cooperative in Hawaii, which deployed storage before grid-forming inverters became available, became a test case for diagnosing grid issues that can arise with older ...

Willing to let your utility borrow your thermostat? It could help save billions of dollars in infrastructure costs while lowering your power bill. Jon covers artificial intelligence. He previously led ...

The Smart Grid Research Consortium has announced the successful completion of its two-year software development project with the formal release of the Smart Grid Investment Model. The Smart Grid ...

The U.S. grid has a structural reliability problem. The major disturbance event count for the U.S. grid has more than tripled in 24 years and the trend continues to get worse. The recently passed ...

The culprit in the May 2025 “loadshed event” in New Orleans was Louisiana’s under-developed electric grid. An upcoming grid ...