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If there is one reminder from the power outages left in the wake of Hurricane Helene, it’s that our nation’s electric grid has vulnerabilities. Despite the sharp minds and advanced technology designed ...

Grid reliability, operational efficiency and regulatory compliance are at the top of every electric utility’s priority list. Aligning every planning and operations silo across the organization to ...

The electrical grid is facing unprecedented stress from the addition of new data centers. Software could offer a ...

America's electricity demand is soaring. The rise of data centers, electric vehicles (EVs), and a rebounding manufacturing industry has pushed the power grid to its limits. To keep up, the U.S. needs ...

A team of researchers at the Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory has developed more robust circuit breakers that are compatible with direct current (DC), paving the way for lower ...

The MariBell project highlights ongoing tension between the need for reliable energy and property owners' desires to protect ...

It would be the first 765-kilovolt line in Wisconsin, part of a broader route that backers say forms a "transmission superhighway" across the region.