A blackout is unlikely in Texas this winter, but it always remains a possibility with the stressed ERCOT grid.

Hurricane Oscar’s arrival to eastern Cuba Sunday has impacted millions of residents already facing days without power, as fresh attempts to restore much of the nation’s electric grid have failed.In ...

The US power grid is under stress. Outages are much more common than they were two decades ago, even as electricity consumption has remained little changed. One culprit is the extreme weather brought ...

Picture this: It’s a Thursday night in Houston and thunderstorms are rolling in. Suddenly, winds roar past 100 mph. Trees snap, windows shatter and the city darkens as power flickers out. Even after ...

BloombergNEF warns AI data centers are straining U.S. grid as power demand is expected to surge to 106 GW, amid record grid ...

So far, aided by growing solar capacity, heat-related outages have been limited. By Kate Selig and Hilary Howard The heat wave has broken temperature records across the Midwest and Northeast and put ...

Advanced transmission technologies could sidestep permitting challenges and clear the bottleneck holding up hundreds of gigawatts’ worth of renewable-energy projects. US electricity consumption is ...

Texas' main grid operator on Thursday forecast that the state's growing demand for power could surpass its available energy supply beginning in summer 2026. In a report outlining potential supply and ...

The utility plans to ask state regulators for approval to add 10 gigawatts of power, enough to support major new industrial growth. The company says it needs to prepare for potential demand from data ...