On the Monday, March 23, 2026, episode of The Excerpt podcast: Aging infrastructure, rising demand and extreme weather are testing the U.S. power grid in new ways. How can we ensure its reliability?

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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 ...

Tesla, Google, and Carrier are among the founding members of a new industry coalition called Utilize, which launched today with a bold claim: the US power grid is so underused that better utilization ...

Industry Insight from Reuters Events, a part of Thomson Reuters. U.S. grid owners are investing in cost-efficient grid enhancements and virtual power plant schemes to help meet soaring demand but ...

AI improves renewable energy forecasting accuracy by up to 33%, helping grid operators better integrate solar and wind resources. Predictive maintenance powered by AI reduces equipment downtime by ...

A wave of Virginia data centers abruptly disconnecting from the power grid last year exposed a growing threat to U.S. electricity reliability: massive customers vanishing all at once, The Wall Street ...

Bottom line: The US electric grid added more energy storage capacity in 2025 than in any previous year on record, achieving the milestone during a politically turbulent period for renewable energy ...

The rapid growth of data centers that support artificial intelligence is reshaping how electricity systems operate across the United States. Pennsylvania is emerging as a key location in this shift, ...

The GW Ranch project approved on 8,000 windswept acres of West Texas will look like many of the other data centers that have sprung up across the country to support Silicon Valley’s ambitions for ...

IRVINE, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--CTC Global, the world’s leading developer and manufacturer of high-capacity advanced conductors, today announced the launch of the GridVista System. The GridVista ...