Microgrids generate, store, and manage their own power, and can disconnect from the utility grid entirely during outages. Real-world systems, from UC San Diego's 92 percent self-powered campus to ...

Cutting ties with the grid can seem like an overly intimidating goal. But now one Rocky Mountain homeowner is sharing how he went fully off-grid for his family of five. In a recent walkthrough of his ...

Will a warming climate and changing weather patterns lead to more grid blackouts and other energy disruptions? Answering that ...

Predictive maintenance tools based on artificial intelligence (AI) are already used in electricity grids around the world.

Research from Austria explores if participation in multiple renewable energy communities under new grid tariffs with varying ...

The state of the U.S. electric grid is becoming a political liability for incumbents on both sides of the aisle as rising ...

Largest U.S. power grid operator PJM said on Friday it was under a federal alert to cut electricity consumption across its territory as ⁠it ‌battled generator outages, massive overloading ⁠on its ...

PJM acted amid generator outages, overloaded transmission lines and surging air-conditioning use during prolonged heat Spot power prices topped $2,500 per MWh in Mid-Atlantic and Dominion zones this ...

America’s rickety electric grid is entering the hottest months of the year with a record-setting amount of new power generation—but plenty of problems. An influx of 58.5 gigawatts of new resources, ...

As triple-digit temperatures engulf much of the United States, the Trump administration wants grid managers to require the use of backup power that often goes unused. By Ivan Penn and Hilary Howard As ...

The Trump administration declared a power emergency Tuesday for PJM Interconnection, the largest U.S. energy grid, ahead of a dangerous heat wave that threatens to strain electricity infrastructure.

DETROIT – A brutal stretch of hot weather is pushing DTE Energy’s power grid to its limits across southeast Michigan, and for hundreds of Detroit residents, it already hit home overnight. Customers ...