More EVs and a growing demand for power will require upgrades to the grid, although coming technologies may end up lowering ...

Until now, we’ve been customers of utilities — with power flowing one way to homes — but more and more we’ll be active ...

NEW YORK, New York (WCBS) — A New York-based start-up company wants to use batteries to reduce stress on the energy grid and put money back in the pockets of state residents. The pilot program, ...

The "self-healing" grid automatically isolates outages and reroutes power, often possibly restoring service within seconds.

Many are concerned with electricity price hikes and looming blackouts, and many are fed up with a system that prioritizes ideology and utility profits over reliability. Our electric grid is the ...

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 ...

What is a microgrid and how does it work? New portable units allow you to “island” home energy for off-the-grid security. No, we’re not talking about miniature cooking pans for making tiny pancakes!

One of the major problems with renewable solar and wind energy is intermittency but a technology that has been around for decades may be the solution.

The ABC10 weather team examines how California is balancing climate and cost with increasing electricity demand.

A recent report by the global technology company Schneider Electric forecasts potential problems for America's electric grid if more is not done to meet surging power demand. The company's grid ...