In the remote and rain-lashed Scottish highlands, UK utility SSE has a job trying to maintain the tens of thousands of wooden poles that carry electricity across its far-flung network.

The Gazette offers audio versions of articles using Instaread. Some words may be mispronounced. You’re glad you went home early — the roads were flooded with rainwater and it’s only gotten worse since ...

Jan 6 (Reuters) - The U.S. Midwest grid has teamed up with Microsoft (MSFT.O), opens new tab, it said on Tuesday, in the latest instance of Big Tech turning to collaboration to help ensure the massive ...

One of the nicest comments people have made about the electrical grid was … nothing. The grid works best when it fades into the background. That low-profile status has changed in recent years as fires ...

Fort McCoy’s Directorate of Public Works (DPW) and Xcel Energy continue to work together to finish the process of changing the electrical grid on post from a Delta Electrical System to a Wye ...

National Grid has deployed over 2,300 specialists to restore power in Upstate New York following a severe windstorm. As of 3 p.m. Friday, service was restored to more than 54,000 of the nearly 66,000 ...

Kalshi is a CFTC-regulated U.S. prediction market where people trade on whether future events will happen. Every market has exactly two outcomes: Yes or No Each contract is worth between $0.01 and ...

ERCOT reported a record surge in large-load requests, with AI data centers surpassing Bitcoin miners and reshaping Texas’ grid planning and reliability outlook. Texas is rapidly emerging as an ...

Thanh shares a peaceful look into off-grid life in northern Vietnam as he harvests plums for the market, tends his forest garden, and cares for a variety of homegrown vegetables. #offgrid #cabin ...

Liam Denning is a Bloomberg Opinion columnist covering energy. A former banker, he edited the Wall Street Journal’s Heard on the Street column and wrote the Financial Times’s Lex column. One-in-six US ...

A Canadian who has worked in the gaming industry for over two decades, Beck grew up on games such as Final Fantasy and Super Mario Bros. He specalizes in roleplaying games, but covers titles in almost ...

Efforts to support a more sustainable grid that scales for AI data centers and electrifies industry and transport are becoming increasingly complex, beyond the capabilities of legacy grid software.