A severe geomagnetic storm forecast for January 2026 could disrupt electric grids across 11 northern U.S. states and provide a rare opportunity to see the northern lights as far south as Alabama, ...

In 1843, Congress gave Samuel Morse $30,000 to try to send a telegram from Washington, D.C., to Baltimore. Rather than bury the transmission wires underground, where technical issues would be hard to ...

Researchers on Friday said that Poland’s electric grid was targeted by wiper malware, likely unleashed by Russia state hackers in an attempt to disrupt electricity delivery operations. A cyberattack, ...

After the Trump administration and a coalition of bipartisan governors called on the biggest U.S. electric grid operator to enact reforms to cut electricity prices, the operator announced its own plan ...

Texas’ grid operator is developing a new process to evaluate multiple large-load interconnection requests at the same time. The question for cryptocurrency miners and data center developers that are ...

Mr. Meyer is a contributing Opinion writer and the founding executive editor of Heatmap, a media company focused on climate change. It might not be obvious, but it has been a bit of a challenge to ...

A major winter storm targeting the Southeast isn’t likely to stress the Tennessee Valley Authority’s electric grid, but low temperatures projected to start Jan. 26 could break demand records at the ...

Ohio’s electric bills are skyrocketing because of decisions by Republican leaders to welcome data centers while freezing out green energy sources, and Today in Ohio says some of those leaders now are ...

The Trump administration wants the largest electricity grid to add $15 billion worth of new power generation — and he wants tech companies to pay for it, even if they don’t need the capacity. The ...

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