According to various estimates, electricity demand in the United States is expected to increase by at least 30 percent over the next decade. Extreme weather is increasing the use of air conditioning ...

The utilities industry is facing aging infrastructure, increased outages, and pressure to maintain or modernize the grid to keep up with rising demand. An estimated 70% of transmission lines are more ...

The electrical grid in most developed countries was built 50-100 years ago around a straightforward model: large centralized power plants generate electricity and transmit it long distances to end ...

As the world accelerates toward a decentralized, carbon-neutral future, the electric power grid is undergoing its most radical transformation in a century. We're moving from a predictable, one-way ...

The growing use of inverter-based resources (IBRs), combined with rising electricity demand from artificial intelligence and data centers, is creating new and significant challenges for the modern ...

Google has partnered with Tesla, data center developer Verrus, and a handful of energy and HVAC companies to push for "greater grid utilization." The group, known as Utilize, says it will push to ...

The energy sector is at a critical juncture. Utility providers face immense pressure from surging energy demands, the urgent need to integrate renewable resources, and the increasing threat of extreme ...

Alaska is at a critical juncture. The Railbelt’s four electric cooperative utilities have expanded since they were created in the 1940s but transmission connections between regions have not kept pace.

The North American power grid's interconnectedness creates a broad attack surface vulnerable to cyber threats like ransomware and disruption. FERC's new CIP-015-1 standard emphasizes securing ...

Do you have family members or relatives who’ve decided to move and live completely off the grid: leaving behind modern conveniences to return to a more traditional, simpler, self-sustaining way of ...