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Poles, lines and other infrastructure around the country are aging, and subject to damage from today’s more extreme weather.
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 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.
Supply shortfall caused by spiking demand during extreme summer weather could affect two-thirds of the U.S.
Experts say the country needs more transmission lines to move power from where it’s being generated to where it’s needed.
What will it take to make sure that Puerto Rico can fix its infrastructure to become more resilient?
Emergency repairs were made after electricity network went down during Maria. But investments in resilience have been slow to come.
In the West, drought and fire can unite to put extra stress on the grid.
The Electric Reliability Council of Texas’ new CEO has experience working under a different power pricing model — a capacity market.
