The study identifies AI data centers as a fundamentally distinct category of electricity consumer. Traditional data centers tend to draw power in relatively predictable patterns, with gradual changes ...

Growing energy demand means the U.S. will almost certainly have to expand its electricity grid in coming years. What's the best way to do this? A new study by MIT researchers examines legislation ...

North American electric utilities continue to grapple with the challenge of managing behind-the-meter distributed energy resources (DERs), according to the results of a survey of utility ...

Proactive planning and coordination will be needed to enable the electrification of large fleet vehicles, such as buses and delivery trucks, and meet their charging needs, according to a new study ...

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The Department of Energy (DOE) has awarded capacity contracts of up to $1.5 billion to four major transmission lines under its Transmission Facilitation Program (TFP) to aid the transfer of 7.1 GW of ...

U.S. government policies – on trade, re-shoring of industry, taxation and regulation – will be critical to improving electrical grid reliability, the subject of a new study by the National Electrical ...