For decades, U.S. electricity demand was steady, allowing utilities to plan gradual growth and maintain the grid with modest upgrades. That era is over. The convergence of electric vehicles (EVs), ...

NYPA uses fiber-optic sensing, based on the principles of distributed acoustic sensing, to identify power line conditions in real time. Drone view of the Princetown substation on the Central East ...

To guarantee the tensile strength and clearance requirements of transmission lines are not violated under time-varying external conditions, transmission lines are given line ratings that determine ...

This story was originally published by Grist. Sign up for Grist’s weekly newsletter here. This story was produced by Grist and co-published with Verite News. When a winter storm knocked out Texas’ ...