Between grid overload and extreme weather, sudden power outages cost the U.S. economy an estimated $150 billion per year. The 2021 Texas freeze alone inflicted $130 billion in losses from property ...

Massive data centers are pushing energy demand higher. Some people claim that AI will be a net benefit for the grid. The rising popularity of AI is driving an increase in electricity demand so ...

New England has some of the highest electricity prices in the country. But this past winter, 140,000 households in ...

Apr. 20—SAN JOSE — A 7-mile electric transmission line is slated to be built underneath San Jose and Santa Clara in a project that would bolster efforts to upgrade the South Bay energy grid. LS Power ...

But a report says utilities in the Southeast are ignoring the benefits of longer lines to import power. Large-scale expansions of high-voltage electricity transmission are increasingly on the table ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... Ninety miles west of Chicago, the corn and soybean fields stretch to the sky, and dreams of the clean energy future dangle — just out of reach. To the east ...

Back in the dark days of Covid, we wrote a paper that said the electricity industry was spending only a fraction of what it needed to spend to modernize plant and get ready for climate change. Now, ...

A sensor about the size of a bowling ball can measure the real-time temperature of a transmission line. With this information, the operator can safely increase the level of power flowing through the ...