On a quiet road in Valley Forge, Pennsylvania, not far from the field where George Washington’s starving soldiers waited out the winter in 1778, sits the headquarters for PJM Interconnection, the ...

Austin-based Base Power just raised $1 billion in Series C funding to accelerate its mission to modernize the Texas grid, one home battery at a time. Addition led the round, with support from existing ...

The electric grid in the U.S. and select other countries will need to be significantly upgraded and expanded to support surging AI-related power demand. GE Vernova and Quanta Services are well ...

Fred Ramsdell found out about his Nobel Prize nearly 12 hours after it was announced because he was on vacation in the Rockies. By John Yoon Fred Ramsdell was parked at a campground in Montana on ...

Copper futures have risen above $10,500 a ton, reaching their highest point since May 2024, driven by investment trends, macroeconomic factors, and a worsening supply outlook. Recent supply ...

A Maryland utility is touting a project that allows owners of Ford F-150 Lightning electric pickups to send power from their vehicles to the grid and get compensated for it. The Baltimore Gas and ...

Peak Energy just switched on a 3.5 MWh sodium-ion battery, the largest sodium-ion energy storage project developed in the US. The system is the first of its kind at grid scale, and may eventually be a ...

The idea of using an electric vehicle’s battery to send energy from the EV to the electrical grid is not a new idea. Ars first covered the technology, known as vehicle-to-grid or V2G, back in 2009 ...

This summer’s record-breaking heat around the country has exposed a major vulnerability in the U.S. economy: our outdated electricity grid. From factory slowdowns to data center outages, the cost of ...

Arkheron is a team based PvP game where fifteen teams of three fight to ascend a mysterious tower. Made up the memories of the dead, the tower is a surreal dimension that takes different shapes each ...

A Long Island senior citizen just discovered that she had been overpaying her National Grid bill for a decade. It turns out she never told the utility she converted from oil to gas. Lawmakers say more ...

The US power grid is under significant stress due to rapidly increasing electricity demand from AI data centers and electric vehicles, coupled with the retirement of traditional power plants. The grid ...