Major power outages are more common and last longer than they did 10 years ago. It's a sign our electric grid is unprepared for the climate crisis.

California Burning: The Fall of Pacific Gas & Electric and What It Means for America’s Power Grid, by Katherine Blunt, (Portfolio: August 2022), 368 pages. Reporter Katherine Blunt of the Wall ...

The site’s power outage maps are updated nearly in real time and combine data from about 950 electric utilities serving more than 150 million customers in the United States, turning America’s ...

States, corporations and voters are increasingly pushing to decarbonize America’s power grid. What are the true challenges? Click to toggle navigation menu. Headlines; ...

The high-voltage transmission systems in the four regions comprise about 200,000 miles of power lines, divided among a staggering 500 owners, that carry current from more than 10,000 power plants ...

The impact of the global COVID-19 pandemic has presented North America with a golden opportunity to focus growth investments on modernizing its aging energy infrastructure.

But there’s a catch, and it’s a big one. While the factory will run on wind and solar power much of the time, renewables supplied only 34% of the local utility Evergy’s electricity in 2023 ...

Electricity grids are perhaps some of the most complex systems in modern society, with the North American power grid often considered the largest machine in the world. Despite variable demand from ...

The site’s power outage maps are updated nearly in real time and combine data from about 950 electric utilities serving more than 150 million customers in the United States, turning America’s ...