As rooftop solar and home batteries show up in more and more places, however, we're building something bigger than a backup: ...
PJM ​said ​it was ​under a federal alert to cut electricity consumption. It serves 67 million people ⁠in the Mid-Atlantic, ...
An ice storm in northern Michigan in March 2025 brought down trees and power lines, causing widespread damage and outages. Michael Livingston / IPR News This coverage is made possible through a ...
HOUSTON — Jeff and Jenny Wright haven’t paid an electric bill for their Houston home in more than a year. Instead, the couple sells their unused power back to the grid in a system that some states ...
Shares of power-plant owners Constellation Energy, NRG Energy and Vistra rallied Wednesday on news that the largest U.S. grid operator is speeding up plans to connect data centers with power producers ...
Grid United, a Houston company backed by a Houston billionaire, has begun the years-long process of connecting El Paso Electric’s Western power grid to the Eastern grid, providing a new electricity ...
Liam Denning is a Bloomberg Opinion columnist covering energy. A former banker, he edited the Wall Street Journal’s Heard on the Street column and wrote the Financial Times’s Lex column. Angst over ...
America’s aging electric grid is struggling to meet modern demands—especially amid the AI boom. Overhauling it will be no small feat. Reading time 6 minutes Most of America’s power grid infrastructure ...
Pity the grid operator PJM Interconnection. For decades it worked quietly and in the background, matching electricity demand with supply. Meanwhile, customers enjoyed some of the lowest electricity ...
Industry Insight from Reuters Events, a part of Thomson Reuters. Surging AI demand has created major opportunities for behind-the-meter power developers in Texas but hyperscalers still prioritize ...
A Massachusetts-based fusion company took another step this week in its race to become the first to get the same power fueling the sun and stars onto the US electrical grid. Commonwealth Fusion ...
The proliferation of power-hungry data centers is making it difficult to predict the future of the Pacific Northwest’s energy needs. That has implications for the region’s efforts to invest in ...