How the grid can ride out winter storms
Texas fared much better this time around. After 2021, the state shored up its grid, adding winter weatherization for power plants and transmission systems. Texas has also seen a huge flood…
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China’s four-year energy spree has eclipsed entire US power grid
A is undertaking an energy-building boom unlike anything the world has ever seen, as Beijing seeks to ensure supply for power-hungry facilities that are key to dominating…
An Artist Seeks Reinvention by Living Off the Grid in “Far West”
Lala Abaddon doesn’t have an address. Her home, made from scratch, sits off a rocky road, deep in the desert mountains of the American West. “I wrote the realtor, and he thought I was…
Asean Power Grid projects could attract more Chinese investor interest in 2026
Clean-power manufacturers from China have been expanding in Indonesia, could seize more opportunities with cross-border projects China’s clean-power players and investors are poised to…
Seatrium consortium bags major contract with TenneT to link Germany’s grid with North Sea wind power
This brings Seatrium’s value of new wins for FY2025 to over S$4 billion to date A consortium comprising Seatrium and GE Vernova was on Thursday (Dec 11) awarded a contract by European…
Why the grid relies on nuclear reactors in the winter
This scheduled regularity might seem mundane, but it’s quite the feat that operational reactors are as reliable and predictable as they are. It leaves some big shoes to fill for…
China threat to U.S. electric grid increases
China's government has penetrated networks used to control the U.S. electric grid and could use the covert access to shut down the flow of electricity to Americans in a crisis or conflict,…
Singapore future-proofing its grid to meet higher energy demand from EVs, data centres
The intermittency of solar and wind power introduces new operational challenges for the grid Keeping Singapore’s lights on is set to get more complex – with the Republic’s plans to import…
Singapore's Nets join five other Asean networks for a common payment grid
The participating networks are Singapore’s Nets, Malaysia’s PayNet, Vietnam’s Napas, Philippines’ BancNet, Indonesia’s Artajasa and Rintis Six Asean payment networks on Thursday (Oct 16)…
China’s solar leader looks away from Sun to solve grid glut
China’s top province for solar panels plans to accelerate the development of other renewables as well as battery storage, as it seeks to keep promoting clean energy while dealing with a…
California lawmakers to decide on extending key climate program and boosting grid reliability
The fate of a key California climate program Gov. Gavin Newsom has championed as a crucial tool to respond to the Trump administration's environmental rollbacks is in the hands of state…
Hitachi to invest US$1 billion to produce power grid components in US
Hitachi plans to invest US$1 billion to expand its US power grid infrastructure manufacturing, its energy unit said on Thursday (Sep 4), as the country faces record electricity demand from…
Asean Power Grid: Can South-east Asia finally plug into a shared power future?
In 2011, Frank Phuan co-founded Sunseap Leasing, one of Singapore’s earliest solar energy providers. More than a decade on, he is chasing a bigger ambition: lighting up Singapore with…
15 Years Later, $400 Million Sci-Fi Blockbuster’s Sequel Escapes the Grid in New Look
The grid is continuing to expand thanks to Disney with Tron: Ares this fall. While the first trailer that debuted in April offered a tantalizing look at the long-awaited sequel, the studio…
China’s record renewables buildout is wasting power as grid lags
China’s breakneck expansion of renewable power continues to set records, but an increasing amount of that wind and solar energy is being wasted because the grid is not up to scratch. In…
China’s record renewables build-out is wasting power as grid lags
China’s breakneck expansion of renewable power continues to set records, but an increasing amount of that wind and solar energy is being wasted because the grid is not up to scratch. In…
Tron: Ares' Welcomes Fans to the Grid With Gorgeous SDCC Footage
At the Tron: Ares panel at San Diego Comic Con, Disney unveiled clips of two different high-speed lightcycle chases. Fans have already had a glimpse of one of them in the film's…
Trump’s ‘AI Action Plan’ smoothes the way for a bulked-up electrical grid
Welcome to AI Decoded, Fast Company’s weekly newsletter that breaks down the most important news in the world of AI. You can sign up to receive this newsletter every week here. With the…
‘Off the Grid’ Review: Josh Duhamel-Led Action Thriller Is a Formulaic Fizzle
There is no excuse for “Off the Grid.” Writer-director James Agnew’s hackneyed action-thriller is woefully short on action and thrills, and generic enough to suggest it was scripted by AI.…
The Download: Google DeepMind’s DNA AI, and heatwaves’ impact on the grid
When scientists first sequenced the human genome in 2003, they revealed the full set of DNA instructions that make a person. But we still didn’t know what all those 3 billion genetic…
It’s officially summer, and the grid is stressed
We rely on electricity to keep ourselves comfortable, and more to the point, safe. These are the moments we design the grid for: when need is at its very highest. The key to keeping…
The grid may fail, airports shouldn’t
The power always comes back on. It did at London’s Heathrow Airport earlier this year after a fire at a substation disrupted some 1,400 flights at the global hub, upending the plans and…
Is this the electric grid of the future?
Following the unanimous approval by Lancaster County commissioners of a 304-megawatt solar plant outside Lincoln, one of the largest in the state, local opponents appealed. The project’s…
From strain to support: Your AC could help stabilize the power grid
As summer arrives, people are turning on air conditioners in most of the U.S. But if you’re like me, you always feel a little guilty about that. Past generations managed without air…