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.

The new electric Acura RSX will send electricity to a house. It's the latest step in the march toward two-directional ...

Protecting West Virginians or Raising Their Power Bills? There’s no questioning the good intentions behind efforts to “protect West Virginians” by keeping the state’s coal plants running and holding ...

Shapiro thinks Pennsylvania’s electric grid operator, PJM, moves too slowly. He wants states to have more control.

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 ...

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

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.