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 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The U.S. transmission grid isn’t growing fast enough to meet the country’s skyrocketing demand for power. That’s making ...

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 ...

There’s a technology sitting idle in garages and driveways across America that provides a solution to its own potential problem. As more and more electric vehicles tap the grid, their giant batteries ...

AMES, Iowa – Bringing renewable energy to the power grid raises all kinds of “internet-of-things” issues, said Iowa State University’s Manimaran Govindarasu. That’s because “everything is connected,” ...

Although the days of summer have ended, the reliability of our nation’s grid remains a serious problem. The U.S. grid typically provides three 9s or 99.9% reliability, which equals almost 9 hr of ...

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 you flip the switch, the lights come on. But in Illinois, after years of sweeping reforms to the energy industry and growing demand for electricity, that premise is coming into question. Several ...