The U.S. power grid has changed little since Edison and now strains under soaring demand. Flush with capital, data centers may be forcing it to catch up.

California just signed two virtual power plant bills into law, joining Vermont and Virginia in betting home batteries can cut grid costs.

El Niño tilts the odds toward anomalous weather that can impact the U.S. power system in both good ways and bad ways.

GridCARE, the pioneer of Power Acceleration, announced today that over the past 12 months it has qualified 5 gigawatts (GW) of additional load-serving capacity on the existing U.S. grid in partnership ...

This week’s Current Climate newsletter also looks at a limiting factor for Tesla’s Semi and The Ocean Cleanup’s push to ...

Electricity demand is skyrocketing, utility bills are spiking – but it could take years to build the new transmission lines that would address the problem.

Distributed energy resources are advancing the cause of a more resilient and reliable power supply for utilities, homes and businesses, and more. Distributed energy resources (DERs) have become a ...

For more than a century, the electricity grid has mostly worked in one direction.

AI power demand is surging, but the grid problem emerging in US data is more local and complicated than a nationwide electricity shortage. AI data centers are adding new electricity demand as US grid ...

SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico — On a hot summer evening the lights in Old San Juan suddenly powered off, darkening the cobblestone streets of this historic neighborhood. Luckily this dog-friendly bar had its ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Energy Department is set to announce it will spend almost $2 billion to try to squeeze more electricity out of the nation’s aging and stressed power grid, as President Donald ...

Star Catcher is gearing up for the launch of its prototype satellite, dubbed Protostar, to test its technology in space for ...