The history of the U.S. power grid is one of innovation and technological progress, evolving from Edison’s Pearl Street Station to a complex, modern system that powers the nation. It is a continually ...

If all goes to plan, Virginia will be the site of the world’s first grid-scale nuclear fusion power plant, able to harness this futuristic clean power and generate electricity from it by the ...

But there’s a huge, aging elephant in the room: the U.S. electrical grid. Most people don’t realize that over 70% of the country’s power infrastructure is more than 25 years old.

Curtailment is not a new function for the state’s grid operator, but it is used more and more frequently. Since 2014, the California Independent System Operator has curtailed more wind and solar power ...

Unprecedented growth in electricity demand, combined with the shift to decarbonization, is driving the push for grid modernization. Distributed energy resources are rapidly expanding, and load ...

Independent power producer Pattern Energy is taking direct aim at two major hurdles the US will need to overcome to have any chance of achieving President Joe Biden’s ambitious 2035 national goal of ...