The UK’s electricity ‘supergrid’ was built in the 1950s – designed for a different era that was reliant on fossil fuels. Here we explore why in an increasingly connected and electrified world, it need ...

More EVs and a growing demand for power will require upgrades to the grid, although coming technologies may end up lowering electric bills for everyone. Large-scale ...

There’s a technology sitting idle in garages and driveways across America that provides a solution to its own potential problem. As more and more electric vehicles tap the grid, their giant batteries ...

The new electric Acura RSX will send electricity to a house. It’s the latest step in the march toward two-directional charging. For as long as electric vehicles have been on America’s roads, some have ...

Electric utilities are under growing pressure as rapid load growth and distributed energy resources outpace traditional grid ...

You’re glad you went home early — the roads were flooded with rainwater and it’s only gotten worse since. You hear the wind whipping across your yard and see trees thrash, some losing their branches ...

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 ...

More than 560 million people in sub-Saharan Africa live without electricity. About 384 million live in countries classified ...

In tropical cities, afternoon thunderstorms can plunge entire neighborhoods into brief moments of darkness. When civil ...