NRG Energy. CenterPoint Energy. The Electric Reliability Council of Texas, better known as ERCOT. Various corporations affiliated with the Texas power grid are household names in Houston. But what do ...

Electric substations may look confusing, but they’re the control centers that keep electricity safe and reliable. In this ...

Artificial intelligence, automation, crypto mining, and cloud computing are putting increasing demand on electric utilities—and the power-hungry data centers these technologies rely on continue to ...

The nation’s power grid is entering a new era of soaring demand – the full extent of which remains uncertain – and energy leaders warn that investments in new generation, efficiency, and ...

In Nebraska, a publicly owned utility deftly tackles the challenges of delivering on reliability, affordability, and sustainability. One morning in the middle of March, a slow-moving spring blizzard ...

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 ...

By removing a bottleneck to development, the federal government would make it easier to build the giant computing centers ...

Amid worries data centers powering artificial intelligence could inflate utility bills, DTE promises the deal will help with ...