An imbalance has emerged between the amount of energy needed to meet demands in the United States and the ability to quickly bring energy projects online to supply that need. As generative AI ...

Renewable energy sources have stabilized the Texas power grid for peak summer demand, according to Inside Climate News. The state's grid operator, the Electric Reliability Council of Texas, reported a ...

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?

When the electric grid fails anywhere in the U.S., the impacts can be devastating. With demand surging over the next decade, there are growing, urgent questions about whether the system can keep up.

A massive power outage strikes Spain and Portugal, briefly affecting parts of France as well, on Monday, April 28, 2025. Street lights, traffic signals, and internet/mobile networks go down, leading ...

An extended collaboration of researchers in China has successfully reduced the response time to grid failures to just 0.1 seconds, compared to hours in other countries. The collaboration consisted of ...

India's grid faces a "double-peak" pattern, when daytime demand is partly cushioned by solar power, but evening peaks, driven ...