America’s power grid is entering 2026 with mounting stress, and experts warn that a handful of states face the sharpest ...

(Refiles to fix headline to 'forecast record' demand) By Tim McLaughlin and Laila Kearney BOSTON/NEW YORK, Jan 28 (Reuters) - Transmission line congestion on the largest U.S. power grid is expected to ...

Managers of electric grids say freezing temperatures and ice and snow could lead to power outages in many places, potentially ...

By Tim McLaughlin BOSTON, Jan 24 (Reuters) - U.S. electric grid operators on Saturday stepped up precautions to avoid ...

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The United States is quietly approaching a major inflection point in its infrastructure story: much of its electric transmission grid is entering old age. Power lines crisscrossing the country rarely ...

BUFFALO, N.Y. — As we close in on a year since a tornado hit Buffalo, National Grid wants to remind you to never go near downed power lines. "We're going to put sites and sounds to those safety ...

On a cloudy day in mid-July, a crew of technicians carried a shiny metal orb, about the size and weight of a kid’s bowling ball, under a 110-kilovolt transmission line running near Hamburg, Germany.

The MariBell project highlights ongoing tension between the need for reliable energy and property owners' desires to protect their land.

It would be the first 765-kilovolt line in Wisconsin, part of a broader route that backers say forms a "transmission superhighway" across the region.