One of the nicest comments people have made about the electrical grid was … nothing. The grid works best when it fades into the background. That low-profile status has changed in recent years as fires ...

Over the next two decades, global electricity demand is expected to double, growth we haven’t seen since post-World War II. To meet historic projections, we need to generate abundant, reliable and ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. As the United States stands on the brink of a new era of potential industrial growth, one critical component is still a giant ...

Back-to-back powerful hurricanes have produced yet another stress test for the United States electrical grid, perhaps kicking the urgency of finding long-term remedies for deficiencies up another ...

A watchdog for the utility industry says that a surge in demand for electricity could pose a problem for grid reliability across the United States and Canada as utilities have been slow to make ...

In February 2021, Texas came within four minutes and 37 seconds of a complete statewide blackout. A winter storm knocked out 40 percent of the state’s grid capacity in just four hours, leaving ...

Nine years after it was devastated by Hurricane Maria, Puerto Rico's electricity grid remains woefully short of reliable ...

When we envision our high-tech energy future, it is easy to overlook the foundational component we inherited from past generations: the power grid. For well over a century, this vast network of ...