The grid includes more than 7,300 power plants, 160,000 miles of high-voltage power lines and 55,000 transmission substations. One challenge is that there's no single entity whose responsibilities ...

The power grid is growing increasingly complex as more renewable energy sources come online. Where once a small number of large power plants supplied most homes at a consistent flow, now millions ...

The power grid is underpinned by a single gas that is used to insulate a range of high-voltage equipment. The problem is, it’s also a super powerful greenhouse gas: a nightmare for climate change.

When extreme weather rolls through an area, a power outage may be on its heels. And some U.S. communities are at particular risk from power grid failures, research suggests — especially as human ...

Breakdowns and human error: The state also uses natural gas to power its grid. Though during this heat wave, several plants, including gas-fired ones, partially broke down, The Associated Press ...

One culprit is the extreme weather brought on by human-caused climate change. Another is the age of the grid, much of which was built in the 1960s and ’70s. That would be enough of a national ...

While Human Rights Watch is not in a position to identify the intended target, the attack may have been aimed at Kyyivsʹka Haes, a pumped-storage power station, or the Kyiv Hydroelectric Power ...

New York's electric grid will face supply shortfalls if the rate of retiring old fossil fired power plants continues to quickly outpace the addition of clean new energy supply at the same time ...

For the first time ever, 11Alive was granted exclusive access into one of Georgia Power Company's Distribution Control Centers. This is a hub where that smart-grid technology and human intuition ...