Decisions also have to be made quickly, and the logistics for sending power from one company have to be arranged before the blackout begins. The grid facing power shortages must know which sources ...

The Wrights turned their Texas home from a solar-powered standalone into part of a Virtual Power Plant (VPP) network, which returns excess energy to the grid.

COLUMBUS, Ohio -- It’s not just Ohioans who are upset by their electricity bills. Nine other states are raising alarms about how our regional power grid is managed and demanding big changes. “Millions ...

A virtual power plant, or VPP, is a network of resources that a central controller can call upon to send power to the grid or ...

New York Blackout 2003: Historic power outage affecting a large part of the north eastern United States and Canada. (Photo by Robert Giroux/Getty Images) The Blizzard of 2026 swept across the ...

A powerful early-season heat dome over Northwest Europe did two things at once: push temperatures to dangerous highs and offer a vivid example of how solar can reshape the power grid, as Bloomberg ...