Copper demand is rising faster than the industry anticipated, driven by billions of dollars being invested worldwide to ...

Ever wondered how electricity gets from power plants to your home? It’s all made possible by power transformers—essential components of the electrical grid that manage voltage levels for safe ...

In a special edition of The POWER Podcast, released in collaboration with the McCrary Institute’s Cyber Focus podcast, ...

Prices out of the biggest U.S. power auction, held by grid operator PJM Interconnection, cleared at $329.17 a megawatt-day, ...

A dangerous shortage of electrical transformers—worsened by policy, demand, and customization—leaves the U.S. power grid ...

On-Grid If we know that there isn’t necessarily a lack of power—just mismatched supply and demand —why build off-grid rather than make better use of what’s already there, the on-grid ...

Local conditions While the grids in Spain and Portugal are connected to each other, they have limited connections to elsewhere. The only sources of external power to the grid come from France and ...

The way power plants know what real-time power adjustments are needed is by closely monitoring the grid frequency. The goal is to provide electricity at a constant frequency – 60 hertz – at ...