The United States of America cannot win its 21st Century conflicts when it has a 20th-Century electrical grid.

The Texas grid operator found that under most weather conditions, there is a less than 2% chance of a grid emergency through February. However, Texas could be in trouble in the unlikely event that a ...

One of the questions I’m asked most often is whether I think the future of power in the U.S. will be on-grid or off-grid. My answer is that it's the wrong question. Like most complex subjects—and ...

Rising electricity demand from EVs and AI is stressing a grid built of centralized, rotating generators. Renewables can ...

Rendering of DC Grid modular, direct current power generators using energy sources such as solar, renewable natural gas and biogas. Frustrated with the combination of what its founder terms ...

The US power grid is under stress due to aging infrastructure and changing energy consumption patterns. The rise of renewable energy and electric vehicles presents challenges for grid management and ...

The new “Speed to Power Initiative” must overcome dangerous assumptions that put America’s future at risk. Last week, hundreds of private sector companies and organizations provided input to the ...

Picture this scenario: At 2:37 a.m. during a storm, lightning strikes a distribution feeder line in rural Wisconsin. A massive power surge races through the distribution network. Instead of triggering ...

Gov. Healey calls federal government's national security claims 'another fabrication ... to further fossil fuels' ...

Charley bounces about near Patty Cronheim and her husband Mike Klein on Friday. The dog curiously peers toward the baby blue house and the heat pumps proudly displayed. They have an at-home electric ...

A virtual power plant (VPP) is a network of decentralized, small- to medium-scale power generating units, flexible power consumers, and storage systems that are aggregated and operated as a single ...

Johanna Mathieu works for the University of Michigan. She has received funding from the National Science Foundation, Department of Energy, ARPA-E, and the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation. She is affiliated ...