Texas runs its own power grid separate from the rest of the U.S. Winter 2021 blackouts were caused by severe weather and a ...

Johanna Mathieu works for the University of Michigan. She has received funding from the National Science Foundation, Department of Energy, ARPA-E, and the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation. She is affiliated ...

Electricity is essential to everyday life. It keeps us warm, fed and informed. But the components that make up the grid – and the terminology that describes it – can feel complex and at times, hard to ...

One of the nicest comments people have made about the electrical grid was … nothing. The grid works best when it fades into the background. That low-profile status has changed in recent years as fires ...

Data centers are under immense pressure to expand, and the primary obstacle to that growth is grid constraints. That’s ...

As summer arrives, people are turning on air conditioners in most of the U.S. But if you’re like me, you always feel a little guilty about that. Past generations managed without air conditioning – do ...

Julia Calderon’s power used to go out regularly. She lives in a rural part of Orange County, New York, near the New Jersey border, and remembers once having to bury an ice cream cake in the snow to ...

Depending on whom you’re asking, renewable energy and electric vehicles will either destroy the grid or save it. The sun doesn’t always shine and the wind doesn’t always blow, true enough, while a gas ...

The Gazette offers audio versions of articles using Instaread. Some words may be mispronounced. You’re glad you went home early — the roads were flooded with rainwater and it’s only gotten worse since ...