America’s electric grid is in grave danger. After decades of relatively flat national electricity demand, a surge of tech data centers, artificial intelligence, and other Big Tech electricity demand ...

From Colorado to Washington, from Ohio to Pennsylvania, coal-fired power plants are shutting down. The United States is on track to retire half of its capacity to generate electricity from coal by ...

There is a rising chorus of concern across the energy industry that the electric grid is facing a surge in power use that our infrastructure won’t be able to handle. The historical stewards of our ...

Data Centers in Virginia, U.S. BOSTON (Reuters) -Data Center Alley, a 30-square-mile stretch outside Washington D.C. and home to more than 200 data centers, consumes roughly the same electricity as ...

Industry Insight from Reuters Events, a part of Thomson Reuters. Large data center operators are implementing energy saving technologies that will impact U.S. power demand and load profiles. August 18 ...

Plus Power has started operating its Kapolei Energy Storage (KES) facility on Oahu, Hawaii, helping the state in its transition from fossil fuels to solar and wind. The KES project adds 135 MW/540 MWh ...

An unprecedented number of large-scale infrastructure projects must be developed and delivered in the coming decades to facilitate a large global pipeline of power generation projects, according to a ...

From Other Nonprofit Media showcases select work from other nonprofit news sites around the nation. A group of utilities that once went big on building transmission is now going small to open ...

For more than a decade, the demand for power across the US has been nearly stagnant, growing by less than 1% per year. Then came the data center revolution. In turn, US electricity demand has exploded ...

BOSTON (Reuters) - Data Center Alley, a 30-square-mile stretch outside Washington D.C. and home to more than 200 data centers, consumes roughly the same electricity as Boston. So power company ...

Given marching orders by the U.S. Energy Dept. to boost artificial intelligence sector growth, independent agency Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) now must absorb nearly 200 diverging power ...