As tensions in the Middle East cause oil prices to soar, the lesson from the Iran War is familiar: energy security depends on energy diversity. And no state understands this better than Texas. During ...

This digital mock-up showcases a pumped storage hydropower plant in action. This form of renewable energy stores electricity efficiently and boasts the lowest greenhouse gas emissions among ...

Alabama’s first utility-scale battery energy storage system is currently being installed on the grounds of a former coal plant, with Tesla Megapacks being bused in by the truckload. The utility says ...

Courtesy: Benjamin Peck via Unsplash. Virginia lawmakers have passed the Facilitating Access to Surplus Transmission (FAST) Act, groundbreaking legislation that establishes the Commonwealth’s first ...

In an era of unprecedented projected power demand, utilities are scrambling to modernize. Single-function hardware devices, and the systems designed around them, may be obsolete or outdated as soon as ...

Entergy Louisiana crews respond to Winter Storm Fern, which knocked out power to hundreds of thousands of the utility's customers. Courtesy: Entergy Winter Storm Fern has exited stage right, but not ...

Duke Energy has brought on line a 50-megawatt, four-hour battery energy storage system (BESS) at its former Allen coal plant on Lake Wylie, serving customers in North Carolina and South Carolina ...

Thousands of solar panels were shattered when a storm dropped golf ball-sized hail on a 3,300-acre, 350 MW utility-scale project in suburban Houston early last year. Production fell sharply for three ...

The character select screen in the beta version of the Hydropower Market Game. Courtesy: Argonne National Laboratory, NREL Argonne National Laboratory and the National Renewable Energy Laboratory ...

Solar energy’s meteoric rise from niche technology to grid dominance has been fueled by relentless innovation, with the industry’s pioneering research and development (R&D) on 2000V systems promising ...

Image art by Paul Gerke via ChatGPT-4o. In what appears to be an unwitting ongoing act of self-sabotage that threatens grid reliability in an era of rapid load growth, the United States federal ...

The U.S. Department of Energy announced Wednesday it was cancelling a conditional $4.9 billion loan for the Grain Belt Express, a planned transmission line designed to transport electricity generated ...