The grid is made up of power generators — such as dams, coal plants or wind turbines — and more than five million miles of power lines carrying electricity all over the country, according to the vice ...

An Amsler grid, also known as an Amsler grid test, is a tool you can use at home to test your eyes for vision problems. It’s commonly used to test for signs of age-related macular degeneration (AMD).

The February 2021 Texas freeze that led to 246 deaths and 4.5 million Texans losing power and the two energy conservation alerts in three days the week of July 11 show just how susceptible the energy ...

Exciting advancements in solar energy are encouraging more and more folks to jump on the sustainability bandwagon and look into solar panels. Before you do so, though, you’ll need to consider whether ...

Like many North Carolinians, you may have never considered electric substations before last week’s attack in Moore County. Their thickets of metal coils, bars and boxy transformers blend into ...

Renewables can offer cheaper energy than fossil fuels, but the grid isn't designed to handle them. We explore the places in the US making progress on this front. This article is part of "Transforming ...

To many Texans, the Electric Reliability Council of Texas is inextricably linked to a deadly winter freeze in 2021 that killed at least 200 people and prompted ERCOT to order power outages across the ...

The concept of “grid computing” was created in the late 1990s by researchers at Argonne National Labs and other places. Like many revolutionary concepts in IT, including the World Wide Web and ...

The Electric Reliability Council of Texas, operator of the state's power grid, ensures the supply of electricity matches demand at all times. ERCOT doesn't own any power plants, nor does it operate ...

As a former realtor, general contractor and greenhouse operator, Kristi has touched nearly all aspects of homeownership, from the foundation up. Today, Kristi is a full-time investing and real estate ...