AI data centers require incredible amounts of energy to run. NPR's Planet Money investigates how that demand for power might affect your electric bills.

Austin Energy partnered with engineering firm 1898 & Co. to study the feasibility and cost of burying overhead power lines. A second study, focused on hardening existing overhead lines in areas ...

Electricity is the movement of electrons between atoms. Its "discovery" is credited to a host of people, not the least of whom is an American legend, genius, and one of its founding fathers, Benjamin ...

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The clamoring for cities and utility companies to bury power lines underground where wind cannot blow them down and spark a fire has grown exponentially since the devastating wildfires in Los Angeles ...

Can California investment owned utilities and municipal power agencies expedite the undergrounding of electrical transmission wires in fire-ravaged areas? An executive order signed by Gov. Gavin ...

Affordability is the key buzzword ahead of the 2026 midterm elections, and no cost-of-living concern has risen to the top of ...

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LENOX — They say lightning never strikes the same place twice. At the Electric Power Research Institute’s Transmission and Distribution Laboratory, lightning strikes as many times as it likes — just ...

More than 150 miles of electrical power lines damaged by the Palisades and Eaton fires in Malibu and Altadena are slated to be replaced with underground lines, Southern California Edison announced ...

When considering how quickly power may return to the Upstate after Helene, consider the acronym "G-T-D." The three-letter phrase represents the process in how power is deployed through South Carolina ...