Look closely at a solar panel, and you'll see a series of thin metallic lines running across the surface. They're not there to look nice — they have a specific purpose. Those lines are called the grid ...

For decades, U.S. electricity demand was steady, allowing utilities to plan gradual growth and maintain the grid with modest ...

Latest project will save consumers transmission line rebuild costs and reduce curtailment of renewable energy projects by 350 MW, while expanding overall grid capacity. National Grid has announced ...

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One of the biggest hurdles to decarbonizing the grid is getting electricity from point A to point B. But that’s often easier said than done. Today, nearly a terawatt of zero-carbon generating capacity ...

On a cloudy day in mid-July, a crew of technicians carried a shiny metal orb, about the size and weight of a kid’s bowling ball, under a 110-kilovolt transmission line running near Hamburg, Germany.

Greece’s Independent Power Transmission Operator (IPTO) has revealed that a new grid line linking mainland Greece to Crete began operating on May 24. The line consists of two 500 kV direct current (DC ...

Power demand is growing for the first time in decades as new load comes online from a manufacturing renaissance powered by the Inflation Reduction Act, surging data center usage driven by AI, and ...

A grid is considered resilient when it can either withstand the effects of severe weather or, if severe weather does stop it from functioning, when it is able to “bounce back” and restore electricity ...