Electric vehicles (EVs) can effectively serve as mobile batteries that provide energy to the power grid when not being driven, improving the reliability of the grid, serving as a source of backup ...

Massive data centers are gobbling up resources across the United States. The boom has just begun—and you may be paying for it ...

That’s the intent behind the vehicle-to-grid (V2G) model—a proposal that taps into idle EVs at charging stations as a backup source for power grids. A recent Utilities Policy paper outlines why, ...

Power has become one of the biggest bottlenecks in rolling out new AI data centers. That's creating an opening for investors.

Nuclear fusion energy could become commercially viable by the early 2030s as scientists work to replicate the sun's power, potentially transforming energy.

Data centers aren’t short on demand, capital, or customers. They’re short on electrons, facing a grid that can’t build fast enough to keep up with demand.

Battery energy storage systems (BESS) are increasingly used in uninterruptible power supply (UPS) applications for data centers and to speed grid connections, offering services beyond what gas ...

Powerline’s Matineh Eybpoosh explores a growing vulnerability in the global energy transition: while battery storage is ...

One of the fastest-growing users of electricity is air conditioning, which accounts for about 10% of global power use.

An equipment failure at a nearby National Grid substation left the campus without power for more than half a day Classes were ...

Two proposals floated by state lawmakers wouldn’t require any new power plants or transmission lines, but could add to the supply.

After years of creating highly specialized software, researchers used supercomputer clusters to finally solve the "100,000-body problem.