The clean energy revolution has a hidden vulnerability: the software running it answers to someone else. On April 1, Vietnam did something no government had done before. When it licensed Elon Musk's ...

Most of the systems we rely on every day receive attention only when something breaks. We don’t talk about roads when traffic flows, or water systems when the tap turns on. These systems fade into the ...

Abstract: Existing methods for solving grid mismatch problems are often based on first-order Taylor expansion, polynomial root-finding, or exhaustive search over a given angular range. However, these ...

Pity the grid operator PJM Interconnection. For decades it worked quietly and in the background, matching electricity demand with supply. Meanwhile, customers enjoyed some of the lowest electricity ...

Around the world, a wave of mega installations of batteries are lining up to be connected to the grid this year — from solar hubs in Texas to grasslands in inner Mongolia and the site of a former coal ...

On the Monday, March 23, 2026, episode of The Excerpt podcast: Aging infrastructure, rising demand and extreme weather are testing the U.S. power grid in new ways. How can we ensure its reliability?

European countries are racing to bring new data centers online as AI labs across the globe continue to demand more compute. The primary limiting factor is energy—and specifically the ability to move ...

The electric grid was built for stability. Its architecture grew around centralized generation, predictable load patterns and unidirectional power flow. Planning horizons spanned decades, change moved ...

Early last year, a cluster of data centers in Virginia suddenly dropped off the power grid, threatening the stability of the already vulnerable system. The roughly 40 data centers, which had been ...

LONDON, Feb 25 (Reuters) - Big Tech’s race to dominate artificial intelligence may soon hit a nasty road bump as U.S. electricity grids struggle to keep pace with the big-spending hyperscalers. Sign ...