U.S. Sens. Ron Wyden and Jeff Merkley introduced legislation Wednesday to overhaul aging power line infrastructure and establish a $15 billion annual grant program to reduce wildfire risks and energy ...

It’s not just red tape that’s limiting the supply of electricity in America. Grids are physical machines, and they’re short on transformers. Electricity has never been as important to the future of ...

US President Donald Trump mused over whether he would have the “honor of taking Cuba” on Monday, the same day the ...

By Laila Kearney NEW YORK, March 26 (Reuters) - The U.S. technology industry is being pushed to shrink its power use in times ...

ATLANTA — The vast majority of Americans may soon struggle to keep the lights on during the winter as the growing number of energy-intensive data centers continue to strain the nation's power grids, a ...

As other major industries one by one fall victim to hackers, the US electrical-power generation and distribution system seems remarkably insulated from cyber threats. A March 24 story in USA Today ...

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?

On August 13, 2003, a single transmission line near Cleveland, Ohio, sags into an overgrown tree limb and short circuits.