More EVs and a growing demand for power will require upgrades to the grid, although coming technologies may end up lowering ...

Until now, we’ve been customers of utilities — with power flowing one way to homes — but more and more we’ll be active ...

The "self-healing" grid automatically isolates outages and reroutes power, often possibly restoring service within seconds.

If there is one reminder from the power outages left in the wake of Hurricane Helene, it’s that our nation’s electric grid has vulnerabilities. Despite the sharp minds and advanced technology designed ...

NEW YORK, New York (WCBS) — A New York-based start-up company wants to use batteries to reduce stress on the energy grid and put money back in the pockets of state residents. The pilot program, ...

Pennsylvania Gov. Shapiro thinks electric grid operator PJM moves too slowly. He wants states to have more control.

Johanna Mathieu works for the University of Michigan. She has received funding from the National Science Foundation, Department of Energy, ARPA-E, and the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation. She is affiliated ...

Contractors work on power lines Dec. 9, 2024, on the cantonment area at Fort McCoy, Wis. The work is part of an ongoing electrical grid upgrade at the installation where the post will go from a from a ...