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EVs, heat pumps, chipmaking and AI use are likely to drive expansion. It won’t be the first time the power grid has dealt with rapid growth.
Regulators approved more than $9.7 billion in utility rate increases nationally last year.
Businesses, restaurants, hospitals and citizens are all grappling with recurring power outages — and debating leaving as a result.
As ACs across the country kick on during heat waves, electricity demand will spike and some energy grids may fall short of supply.
In Houston, the energy capital of the world, low prices are not a given. Experts would like to see more capacity and more conservation.
We’ll need the lines to connect solar and wind power to new data centers, electric cars, heat pumps and so on.
The Energy Information Association expects electricity demand to rise by 4% this summer, anticipating that it’ll be even hotter than last year.
The feds want data from crypto miners. The miners may file suit to block the request.
The state is home to many of the fastest-growing cities in the U.S. Add record temperatures, and it’s no surprise that the grid is stressed.
Claims of a room-temperature superconductor have gone viral, but others’ earlier claims to have achieved this have been debunked.
