More EVs and a growing demand for power will require upgrades to the grid, although coming technologies may end up lowering electric bills for everyone. Large-scale ...

Fort McCoy’s Directorate of Public Works (DPW) and Xcel Energy continue to work together to finish the process of changing the electrical grid on post from a Delta Electrical System to a Wye ...

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 ...

Depending on whom you’re asking, renewable energy and electric vehicles will either destroy the grid or save it. The sun doesn’t always shine and the wind doesn’t always blow, true enough, while a gas ...

One of the nicest comments people have made about the electrical grid was … nothing. The grid works best when it fades into the background. That low-profile status has changed in recent years as fires ...

As summer arrives, people are turning on air conditioners in most of the U.S. But if you’re like me, you always feel a little guilty about that. Past generations managed without air conditioning – do ...

Texas runs its own power grid separate from the rest of the U.S. Winter 2021 blackouts were caused by severe weather and a lack of grid winterization. Texas laws now mandate weatherization of energy ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. A new partnership aims to reduce the strain on the power grid while boosting electric vehicle adoption by putting money back in ...

Data centers are under immense pressure to expand, and the primary obstacle to that growth is grid constraints. That’s according to a recent survey of data center industry leaders. AlphaStruxure found ...

The rapid growth of data centers that support artificial intelligence is reshaping how electricity systems operate across the United States. Pennsylvania is emerging as a key location in this shift, ...