Thanks to the exponential rise of AI, the rapid construction of large, gigawatt-gobbling data centers across the country has ...

An on-demand web event on Factor This examines the new AI infrastructure equation and explores why power strategy has become increasingly important to data center development.

A power-based grid tariff featuring a linearly-increasing cost function can encourage prosumers participating in renewable energy communities to invest more in flexibility, according to new research.

Every time a global technology powerhouse announces a new AI initiative, the underlying fragility of the electrical grid comes into sharper focus. What was once easy to overlook is now increasingly ...

System planners and grid operators are treating extreme heat as an assumed operating condition given new pressures, including drought, demand growth, and fuel concerns. Will it be enough? For decades, ...

The current power infrastructure is in need of an update for better efficiency, reliability, and safety. Standards organizations and engineers have risen to the challenge, promising to solve many ...

More electric vehicles are becoming capable of providing backup power at a time when the US is increasingly in need of more electrons. You can’t tell when you’re passing one on the highway, but an ...

Storm response has improved. Utilities are better prepared, with more coordinated crew deployment, expanded vegetation management programs and increased situational awareness from advanced monitoring ...

New York Blackout 2003: Historic power outage affecting a large part of the north eastern United States and Canada. (Photo by Robert Giroux/Getty Images) The Blizzard of 2026 swept across the ...