Rolling blackouts are a rising threat across the U.S. as aging power grids collide with extreme weather, rising electricity demand and a shift to cleaner fuels, the nation’s top grid monitor warned ...

Fresh off the heels of Winter Storm Fern, the North American Electric Reliability Corporation (NERC) released an alarming 10-year outlook about the U.S. electric grid this week. It’s worse than NERC’s ...

To keep the lights on, the U.S. needs to build enough regional power lines to move the equivalent of three dozen nuclear reactors’ worth of power. A yearlong study ordered by Congress calls for a ...

A Columbus-based tech startup that started in Akron aims to help electric companies better monitor and maintain their distribution systems and has found a partner in North Carolina that’s helping it ...

The latest effort by the operator of Texas’s electricity grid to ensure reliability has created an artificial scarcity of supply and likely raised wholesale costs by about $8 billion, according to a ...

Eyes are on the Electric Reliability Council of Texas and the state's power grid for the duration of this weekend's winter storm. The power grid operator said earlier this week that expect ample ...

Scientists at Oak Ridge National Laboratory and the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, have developed an algorithm to predict electric grid stability using signals from pumped storage hydropower ...

Texans can monitor ERCOT's power grid in real-time. The agency has several dashboards on its website that update power availability and production. The state's power grid is currently operating under ...