The United States power grid is being pushed harder than at any point in decades, and the strain is no longer theoretical. Record demand, a surge of renewable projects, and the rapid electrification ...

U.S. Representative Troy Balderson (OH-12) has reintroduced a legislation, the Guaranteeing Reliability through the Interconnection of Dispatchable (GRID) Power Act, to help grid operators expedite ...

The grid operator for the Great Plains region is pitching a fast-track process for data centers and other large loads to connect to the grid. The proposed process from Arkansas-based Southwest Power ...

As companies race to incorporate AI into their workflows, the demand to power it all exceeds the supply. Three industry leaders discussed the costs and consequences of this rapid transformation. While ...

The DOE’s $1.9B SPARK plan fast-tracks grid capacity through advanced reconductoring, bypassing permitting hurdles to meet AI ...

The rapid expansion of digitalization and artificial intelligence (AI) is redrawing the map of the electric grid. Hyperscale data centers – deployed by companies like Amazon, Google, Microsoft, and ...

Between grid overload and extreme weather, sudden power outages cost the U.S. economy an estimated $150 billion per year. The 2021 Texas freeze alone inflicted $130 billion in losses from property ...

Energy storage for the electrical grid is about to hit the big time. By the reckoning of the International Energy Agency (iea), a forecaster, grid-scale storage is now the fastest-growing of all the ...

The company’s new product integrates energy storage and AI forecasting for fast, 350kW EV charging speeds (Level 3) without costly grid upgrades. The unit deploys 20x faster than traditional units and ...

NIPSCO is hoping to quickly connect more than 2,600 megawatts of natural gas to the MISO grid at its R.M. Schahfer Generating Station. The Midwest grid operator that serves Indiana is looking to ...

Let me be honest: Until I placed my hand on the metal housing of an electric vehicle fast charger one winter afternoon, I didn't quite understand what we're asking our electrical grid to do. The metal ...