The U.S. power grid is under strain. Aging infrastructure, rising demand and extreme weather are testing reliability.

Time becomes the scarcest resource in the entire infrastructure economy. Distribution grids are often underused for most of ...

In tropical cities, afternoon thunderstorms can plunge entire neighborhoods into brief moments of darkness. When civil ...

One of the nicest comments people have made about the electrical grid was … nothing. The grid works best when it fades into the background. That low-profile status has changed in recent years as fires ...

HARRISBURG, Pa. — With the explosive growth of Big Tech’s data centers threatening to overload U.S. electricity grids, policymakers are taking a hard look at a tough-love solution: bumping the ...

More than 560 million people in sub-Saharan Africa live without electricity. About 384 million live in countries classified ...

New York Blackout 2003: Historic power outage affecting a large part of the north eastern United States and Canada. (Photo by Robert Giroux/Getty Images) The Blizzard of 2026 swept across the ...

UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. — What do honey bees and electric power grids have in common? More than you might think, according to Wangda Zuo, professor of architectural engineering at Penn State. Zuo is ...

Pennsylvania has awarded Northwestern Rural Electric Cooperative (NREC) nearly $4.7 million to upgrade its power grid — an announcement that came as linemen were still working to restore power to ...

ThinkLabs AI has raised $28 million with backing from NVIDIA and energy investors to help utilities modernize power-grid ...

Why is Cuba's power grid in crisis? We explore the causes.