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 ...

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

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 ...

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 ...

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,” ...

It would be challenging to find experts who believe that the U.S. electricity grid, at least in certain areas, is sufficiently robust to meet the unprecedented demand for electricity growth required ...

The Smart Grid Research Consortium has announced the successful completion of its two-year software development project with the formal release of the Smart Grid Investment Model. The Smart Grid ...

A longstanding lack of long-range transmission lines in south Louisiana, which limits the amount of power that can be moved in from other areas, contributed to an “extremely rare” problem with the ...

The outages were desperately needed because of the strain on the electric grid caused by the extreme weather that had crippled much of the country in the previous days. By noon, 340,000 Duke Energy ...

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 ...

A Columbus-based tech startup that started in Akron aims to help electric companies better monitor and maintain their distribution systems and has found a partner in North Carolina that’s helping it ...