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Power and Grids

Batteries supplied more than 40% of the power swings Texas needed in April, quietly becoming the grid’s fastest shock absorber

By Everett Sloane

Power and Grids

The world added a record 108 gigawatts of battery storage last year, the biggest one-year jump the grid has ever seen

By Everett Sloane

Power and Grids

A G3 geomagnetic storm can force voltage corrections on power grids and scramble GPS for hours

By Everett Sloane

Power and Grids

High-voltage power lines move electricity long distances by raising voltage and cutting current

By Everett Sloane

Power and Grids

Electricity on the grid must be used almost the instant it is generated, because it cannot be stored at large scale

By Everett Sloane

Power and Grids

Physicists turned microscopic flaws in a material into a way to harvest usable power from ambient signals, with no battery attached

By Everett Sloane

Power and Grids

A G3 geomagnetic storm can force voltage corrections on power grids and scramble GPS, the same solar punch that drives auroras deep into the lower 48

By Everett Sloane

Power and Grids

Analysts at S&P Global expect data-center power demand to roughly triple by 2030, with the DOE projecting data centers will eat 12% of US electricity by 2028

By Everett Sloane

Power and Grids

Virginia’s data center share of state electricity could leap to 41–59% by 2030, with Arizona, Indiana, Iowa, Nebraska, Nevada, Oregon, and Wyoming next

By Everett Sloane

Power and Grids

US data center power demand is closing in on 1,050 terawatt-hours in 2026, ranking the sector between Japan and Russia if it were a country

By Everett Sloane

Power and Grids

California’s grid pulled 12.3 gigawatts from batteries one evening at 7pm — 42.8% of all electricity statewide

By Everett Sloane

Power and Grids

U.S. developers plan to plug 86 gigawatts of new utility-scale capacity into the grid this year, a record if it lands

By Everett Sloane

Power and Grids

Grid operators will hook up 24 gigawatts of utility-scale battery storage this year, up from a record 15 GW in 2025

By Everett Sloane

Power and Grids

Texas’s ERCOT grid is forecast to grow 11% in 2026 — peak demand projected to climb 46.8 gigawatts through 2029 as AI data centers pile into the state

By Everett Sloane

Power and Grids

FERC just ordered PJM — the grid serving 67 million Americans — to write new rules letting data centers plug straight into power plants without crashing residential bills

By Everett Sloane

Power and Grids

Starting this summer, PJM will have only just enough power to keep the eastern grid stable — data centers connecting faster than utilities can build new plants

By Everett Sloane

Power and Grids

PJM wholesale power prices just jumped 75.5% in one quarter — 67 million Americans on the eastern grid bracing for a 15% bill hike from AI data centers

By Everett Sloane

Power and Grids

More than 100% of Scotland’s electricity demand was produced by renewables in 2025 — the first time, supporting 42,000 jobs across the grid

By Everett Sloane

Power and Grids

American Electric Power is now threatening to walk away from two of the biggest U.S. power grids — calling AI data center connection delays a breaking point

By Everett Sloane

Power and Grids

America’s largest grid operator just warned it has ‘years, not decades’ to restructure as AI devours power — the system serving 65 million now bracing for shortfalls

By Everett Sloane
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