Electric vehicles are being sold as the ultimate solution. Clean transportation paired with grid support sounds perfect, right? Here's the thing though. The reality is way messier than the sales pitch ...

The head of the nation’s grid reliability authority called for more electricity generation. Transmission reform alone will not solve the U.S. electric grid’s ongoing reliability issues, with more ...

Data centers are getting blamed for America’s rising carbon emissions. I mean, of course they are. Old-school, anti-growth environmentalists seem willing to toss any criticism possible at the ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. New EVs are soon expected to be the largest driver of growth in electricity demand, according to the latest California Energy ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. There’s a technology sitting idle in garages and driveways across America that provides a solution to its own potential problem.

In sunny California, solar panels are everywhere. They sit in dry, desert landscapes in the Central Valley and are scattered over rooftops in Los Angeles’s urban center. By last count, the state had ...

Analysis The idea of datacenters feeding power back into the electricity grid during peak demand may sound promising, but operators say it's unlikely to catch on beyond a few trials in Ireland because ...

A longstanding lack of long-range transmission lines in south Louisiana, which limits the amount of power that can be moved in from other areas, contributed to an “extremely rare” problem with the ...

When wildfire risk spikes in Southern California, the lights often go out before the flames arrive. Public safety power shutoffs have become a grim ritual: Utilities cut electricity to prevent ...