John Houghton, of Vermontville, lives off the grid. Jim Visconti powers his off-grid home in the northern Adirondacks with solar panels. Gwendolyn Craig Nancy Bernstein stands outside her home in ...

While the 8-minute outage certainly wasn’t a major emergency, it provided a test of the newly installed system. The four batteries in his detached garage belong to Bandera Electric Cooperative. Rather ...

Texas is the lone state in the contiguous United States with its own power grid. Embracing the go-it-alone spirit of the Lone Star flag, Texas power companies chose to keep their operations within the ...

The U.S. does not have a big enough power grid to accommodate rising energy demand — a fact that’s making electricity less affordable and reliable nationwide. But there’s broad public support for ...

Virtual power plants generate power across a variety of sources from various locations, including rooftop solar panels, home ...

The Texas electricity grid operator is launching a new system meant to alert the public about looming weather events that may impact the power grid and, if needed, call for voluntary energy ...

Taken together, these two reports show the grid is at a significant inflection point,” said Zach Smith, a senior vice ...

The Electric Reliability Council of Texas, operator of the state’s power grid, issued a call for voluntary conservation early Monday morning as demand for electricity soared amid plummeting ...