Tag: electrical grid
Solar crushed 2024, but emissions were up as industry used more natural gas
The U.S. invested a record-breaking $338 billion in the energy transition last year, according to a new report, but it wasn’t quite enough...
ElectronX is building a stock market for electricity trading
Renewable electricity is cheap and clean, but also less predictable than firing up a gas turbine. Turns out that’s both a problem and...
Trump admin reverses hydropower layoffs that sparked grid stability fears
This month, the Trump administration instituted sweeping cuts within the federal agencies in charge of power from hydroelectric dams, raising fears of grid...
Amperesand targets data centers as the next big customer for its solid-state transformers
With data centers expected to consume as much as 12% of electricity in the U.S. by 2028, it’s no surprise that tech companies...
AI data centers could be ‘distorting’ the US power grid
The proliferation of data centers aiming to meet the computational needs of AI could be bad news for the US power grid, according...