Grid

WASHINGTON — The Energy Department on Wednesday announced a new effort to tackle one of the toughest technical challenges facing President Biden’s push for an electric grid dominated by solar and wind power — namely, what to do when the sun…

AUSTIN, Texas - On Monday, as rising temperatures drove Texas power demand to a June record, state regulators urged citizens to use less power or face a repeat of February's fatal outages, which saw 69 percent of Texans were without…

Texas had a rough winter in 2021.In mid-February, when temperatures dropped in the single digits, demand for electricity hit a record high across Texas. The supply was running low, causing the state's utility operator to introduce rolling…

Major automakers are increasingly betting that millions of new cars and trucks will be plugged into sockets rather than refueled at gas stations over the next decade. That begs the question: is the country's power grid ready to handle this…