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

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

As artificial intelligence and data centers demand more power from the grid, Carnegie Mellon University is improving a key technology at the heart of America's energy future—batteries.

As 240-foot-high power lines are set to rise across Sugarloaf, Pennsylvania, longtime residents are fighting eminent domain ...

Electric substations may look confusing, but they’re the control centers that keep electricity safe and reliable. In this video, we break down how substations work, what equipment you see inside them, ...

Generation capacity is roughly 12,000MW–13,500MW, but far less power is actually delivered. In 2023, Nigeria generated 4,500MW for a population of over 200 million. For comparison, Ethiopia, with a ...

Data centers are intensive energy consumers, expected to represent 12% of total U.S. electricity consumption by 2030 — largely due to constant innovations in the artificial intelligence space. This ...

The idea of using an electric vehicle's battery to send energy from the EV to the electrical grid is not a new idea. Ars first covered the technology, known as vehicle-to-grid or V2G, back in 2009 ...

Could data centers and the power grid be America’s next “renaissance?”. The buildout of data centers and the power grid may offer the best opportunity to generate sustained growth. Data centers are ...

A new data center campus is currently under construction in Elyria-Swansea — a neighborhood already struggling with pollution ...

The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) has introduced the Speed to Power initiative, aimed at expediting the development of large-scale grid infrastructure projects for both transmission and generation.

Electricity was restored to some 800,000 residents of the Ukrainian capital after Moscow targeted energy facilities. Kyiv ...