The North American transmission watchdog warns of cascading outages if the largest data centers aren’t regulated.

The U.S. power grid is under strain. Aging infrastructure, rising demand and extreme weather are testing reliability.

The rapid expansion of artificial intelligence infrastructure is colliding with the physical limits of the American power grid, triggering a wave of proposed high-voltage transmission lines and a ...

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PEMBROKE PINES, FLORIDA - MAY 16: High voltage power lines run along the electrical power grid on May 16, 2024, in Pembroke Pines, Florida. The grid is strained by increasing demand from ...

AI demand threatens the power grid. See how ThinkLabs uses AI digital twins to cut grid energization analysis from 35 days to ...

Data centers are proliferating in Virginia and a blind man in Baltimore is suddenly contending with sharply higher power bills. The Maryland city is well over an hour’s drive from the northern ...

The MariBell project is a 140-mile, 765-kilovolt power line that would run from Marion, Minnesota to Bell Center, Wisconsin. It's being developed by Dairyland Power Cooperative, in La Crosse, and ...

The Illinois General Assembly is considering a bill package that supporters say would alleviate demand on the power grid and help lower energy prices. The Clean and Reliable Grid Affordability Act ...

Modernizing the electric grid involves more than upgrading control systems with sophisticated software—it requires embedding sensors and automated controls across the entire system. It’s not only the ...

More big power line projects are coming to Michigan, starting with 50 miles of high-voltage lines that will cut across three counties around Lansing. ITC Michigan, the owner of much of the Lower ...