The U.S. transmission grid isn’t growing fast enough to meet the country’s skyrocketing demand for power. That’s making electricity more expensive and less reliable — and it may prevent new data ...

Increasing demand from the tech industry threatens to max out generation capacity in a 13-state region. Consumers are furious ...

The year has ended, but the energy transition keeps chugging along. In 2024, clean energy deployments reached new heights in the U.S., with Texas and California proving that huge amounts of solar and ...

AMES, Iowa – Bringing renewable energy to the power grid raises all kinds of “internet-of-things” issues, said Iowa State University’s Manimaran Govindarasu. That’s because “everything is connected,” ...

When you flip the switch, the lights come on. But in Illinois, after years of sweeping reforms to the energy industry and growing demand for electricity, that premise is coming into question. Several ...

Data center power, fueled by demand for artificial intelligence, is one of the scant few areas of hype in the energy markets nowadays. Data centers require constant, reliable power - and for all the ...

Willing to let your utility borrow your thermostat? It could help save billions of dollars in infrastructure costs while lowering your power bill. Jon covers artificial intelligence. He previously led ...

There is a rising chorus of concern across the energy industry that the electric grid is facing a surge in power use that our infrastructure won’t be able to handle. The historical stewards of our ...

Protection of the energy grid, or "the Grid," will be an issue of significant interest during the second Trump Administration. According to President Trump, he intends to prioritize national security ...

The term “smart grid” means many things to many people, but there is one characteristic that people agree on: the focus of technology developments that transform how we will regard future power ...