In Australia has abundant sunshine, but generating solar electricity is only part of the challenge. Homeowners also need to understand when their systems produce power, when their households consume ...

On July 22, 2026, approximately 3,800 MW of data center load unexpectedly disconnected from PJM’s grid in Northern Virginia following a transmission fault. The facilities transferred to backup ...

Hold onto your hats: Between Jan-Sep 2026, average monthly wind generation was 68% higher than over the same period last year. Those nine months brought 4.6 GWh of wind generation, slightly higher ...

Here’s one way to curb soaring energy costs: roll out virtual power plants. Utility VPP programs could slash residential bill increases by more than half, according to a new Brattle Group report ( ...

In August, PJM filed its Interim Resource Adequacy Service (IRAS) proposal to bring data centers and other new large loads onto the grid. Now, FERC is back with some (harsh) feedback… The no’s: FERC ...

Long equipment lead times make protecting existing assets an increasingly important part of wildfire planning. A transformer can be one of the least visible parts of an electric utility's system, ...

Deadline approaching: Grid operators have until mid-November to tell FERC how they’re going to seamlessly bring new large loads onto the grid. The latest: CAISO’s draft proposal centers on “proactive ...

Our power grids (e.g., PJM Interconnection, NY-ISO, ISO-NE, SPP, etc.) seem "under assault" from massively rising load growth, the vast majority from hyperscale data centers that appear to arise from ...

Meanwhile, on a different coast: New York state is moving towards its clean energy goals with new funding for eight bulk energy storage and 13 large-scale renewable projects. Combined, they’re set to ...

“Safe, reliable power” sits at the center of every utility’s promise to its customers. And it should. Customers expect their utility to keep the power on and restore it safely when something goes ...

A grid operator rarely lacks data. Measurements sit in operational systems, asset locations in GIS, maintenance history in enterprise systems, and defects in inspection records. The difficulty is ...

Has the U.S. got it wrong in the way we finance the poles and wires that bring power to our communities? Veteran energy economist Severin Borenstein, faculty director of the UC Berkeley’s Haas Energy ...