Skyrocketing growth in demand, accelerating security threats, extreme weather events and increasing systemic vulnerabilities ...

Artificial intelligence has captured headlines recently for its rapidly growing energy demands, and particularly the surging ...

Le Xie, Professor of Electrical Engineering at the Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences (SEAS), ...

It hasn’t been that long since humans figured out how to create power grids that integrated multiple generators and consumers. Ever since AC won the battle of the currents, grid operators have had to ...

This story originally appeared on Vox and is part of the Climate Desk collaboration. The tricky thing about generating electricity is that for the most part, you pretty much have to use it or lose it.

LITTLETON, Colorado, March 18 (Reuters) - The United States' power grid has been singled out as a glaring weakness within its power system, with aging lines and transformers deemed unable to handle ...

Across the U.S., new AI-driven data centers are causing a significant increase in power demand. Carbon Direct projects that data center capacity in the U.S. will grow from roughly 25 GW in 2024 to 120 ...