America’s Electric Grid Has A Reliability Problem

America’s electric grid faces a growing reliability gap. Aging infrastructure and severe weather are exposing weaknesses that ...

China’s Power ‘Supergrid’ Gives Xi Buffer Against Energy Shocks

China’s long-running effort to build out its energy sources is getting fresh momentum from the war in the Middle East, reinforcing a strategy that’s sent grid operators on a bond-selling binge and ...
Power Technology

VTT opens new FutureGrid research facility in Finland

VTT is opening a ‘FutureGrid’ research facility in Otaniemi, Espoo, offering a safe platform to test next-gen power grid technologies.
Public Broadcasting Service (PBS)

Landowners and local communities fight back on AI-driven expansion of high-voltage power lines

Although advances in AI are seen by President Trump as critical to the nation’s economic and national security, their energy needs are threatening to overwhelm the power grid — leaving landowners and ...
POWER Magazine

Cuba Suffers Widespread Power Outage After Guiteras Plant Failure: Timeline of the National Grid Restoration

Cuba faces a major power outage after the Guiteras plant failure. Follow the hour‑by‑hour timeline of the national grid’s restoration.

backup power systems

AI data centers face grid delays and turbine shortages, pushing developers toward gas reciprocating engines for fast, scalable gigawatt power. Explore Get the web's best business technology news, ...
Wall Street Journal

A New Threat to Power Grids: Data Centers Unplugging at Once

Early last year, a cluster of data centers in Virginia suddenly dropped off the power grid, threatening the stability of the already vulnerable system. The roughly 40 data centers, which had been ...
T&D World

DLC Integrates Robotics and Physical AI for a Smarter, Safer Power Grid

Duquesne Light Company and Pittsburgh Robotics Network leverage robotics and physical AI to enhance grid operations.
Wicked Local

Massachusetts power outage maps: Latest from National Grid, Eversource

This story has been updated with latest information. Well over 100,000 homes in Massachusetts are without power as a destructive blizzard bears down on the state. With heavy wet snow, power companies ...
Finance & Commerce

Tech giants building shadow power grid for AI data centers

The GW Ranch project approved on 8,000 windswept acres of West Texas will look like many of the other data centers that have sprung up across the country to support Silicon Valley’s ambitions for ...
The Washington Post

Silicon Valley is building a shadow power grid for data centers across the U.S.

The GW Ranch project approved on 8,000 windswept acres of West Texas will look like many of the other data centers that have sprung up across the country to support Silicon Valley’s ambitions for ...
WFTV

Orlando students learn power grid basics in interactive workshop

ORLANDO, Fla. — Students at Orlando Science Charter School gained hands-on experience in the utility industry on Feb. 17, 2026, through a program called Project A.W.E.S.O.M.E. The STEM-based ...