Kairos Power, a maker of small modular reactors (SMRs), has broken ground on its ...

Whenever and however America’s war with Iran ends, it has both exposed and exacerbated the dangers of our new, fractured, multipolar reality—driving deeper wedges between the United States and former ...

ATLANTA — The vast majority of Americans may soon struggle to keep the lights on during the winter as the growing number of energy-intensive data centers continue to strain the nation's power grids, a ...

U.S. power consumption, which hit its second straight annual record high in 2025, will rise further in 2026 and 2027, the Energy Information Administration said in its Short-Term Energy Outlook ​on ...

On the Monday, March 23, 2026, episode of The Excerpt podcast: Aging infrastructure, rising demand and extreme weather are testing the U.S. power grid in new ways. How can we ensure its reliability?

Solar accounted for more than 72% of US electrical generating capacity added in 2025, with another 16% from wind, according to belatedly released data from the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission ...

Welcome to our guide to the commodities driving the global economy. Today, reporters Lauren Rosenthal and Naureen S. Malik look at why US electricity networks are struggling to keep up with winter ...

The U.S. is running headlong into a power crunch driven by the explosive growth of artificial intelligence — and the nation’s energy grid is not ready for it, an executive behind a major new nuclear ...

Combined generation from wind and utility-scale solar reached a record 17% of the US electricity mix in 2025, a significant jump from less than 1% two decades ago. According to the latest data from ...