In 1843, Congress gave Samuel Morse $30,000 to try to send a telegram from Washington, D.C., to Baltimore. Rather than bury the transmission wires underground, where technical issues would be hard to ...

Mr. Meyer is a contributing Opinion writer and the founding executive editor of Heatmap, a media company focused on climate change. It might not be obvious, but it has been a bit of a challenge to ...

A deep freeze is gripping the US in the wake of the worst storm so far this season, leaving the country’s biggest electric grid in emergency status and bracing for record wintertime demand. PJM ...

North Carolinians scrambled to find generators ahead of this weekend’s ice and snow. Now questions are resurfacing about whether the state should adopt laws to better protect the power grid. The ...

Syracuse, N.Y. — Across Central New York, this winter’s National Grid electric and gas bills are up by about $120 on average, thanks to a blizzard of forces hitting residential customers. But two ...

As a massive winter storm barrels across the U.S., power grid operators are taking extraordinary steps to keep the lights on and avoid rolling blackouts. The storm, stretching more than 2,300 miles, ...

Largest regional grid sees electricity prices spike MISO imports power from another grid to meet demand amid gas supply constraints Texas grid faces winter storm test, but improvements reduce blackout ...

HOUSTON — Anytime the Texas power grid is the subject of a conservation advisory, or when the weather turns extreme in the Lone Star State, it's a good time to check on supply and demand. The Electric ...

The latest forecasts on Friday morning suggest North Texas is in for the longest stretch of below-freezing temperatures we’ve felt since the deadly, catastrophic winter storm of 2021. In the five ...

Saman Zonouz receives funding from the Department of Energy Office of Cybersecurity, Energy Security, and Emergency Response (DOE CESER) and the National Science Foundation (NSF). The darkness that ...

Trust in the Electric Reliability Council of Texas, the operator of the state’s predominant power grid, was shaken greatly by the devastating February 2021 winter storm that resulted in widespread, ...

HOUSTON – Ahead of this weekend’s winter weather threat, we want to help you understand how you can easily monitor the power grid from the Electric Reliability Council of Texas. ERCOT, which manages ...