On the Monday, March 23, 2026, episode of The Excerpt podcast: Aging infrastructure, rising demand and extreme weather are testing the U.S. power grid in new ways. How can we ensure its reliability?

Paid content is paid for and controlled by an advertiser and produced by the Guardian Labs team. In the late 19th century, a new technology began to illuminate the world and transform everyday life – ...

Industry Insight from Reuters Events, a part of Thomson Reuters. U.S. grid owners are investing in cost-efficient grid enhancements and virtual power plant schemes to help meet soaring demand but ...

Early last year, a cluster of data centers in Virginia suddenly dropped off the power grid, threatening the stability of the already vulnerable system. The roughly 40 data centers, which had been ...

A group that monitors the U.S. electricity system warns that grid reliability is “worsening” and blackout risks are rising for millions of people. By Brad Plumer Reporting from Washington The ...

America’s AI boom is pushing the nation’s largest power-grid operator to the brink of a supply crisis. Sixty-seven million people in a 13-state region stretching from New Jersey to Kentucky get their ...

Mangaluru: Researchers at the National Institute of Technology Karnataka (NITK), Surathkal, working with the National Jute Board (NJB) and Birla Jute Mills, developed an industrially manufactured jute ...

Researchers at the National Institute of Technology Karnataka (NITK), Surathkal, have developed an industrially manufactured ‘jute geocell’ that can replace plastic geocells used in road construction ...

Paid content is paid for and controlled by an advertiser and produced by the Guardian Labs team. For nearly a century, a system of turbines, substations, wires and more has powered everything from ...

New Delhi: With more than 6.6 million kilometres of roads, India already has the second-largest road network in the world after the United States—and more are being built. The government is projecting ...

Massive data centers are pushing energy demand higher. Some people claim that AI will be a net benefit for the grid. The rising popularity of AI is driving an increase in electricity demand so ...