Look closely at a solar panel, and you'll see a series of thin metallic lines running across the surface. They're not there to look nice — they have a specific purpose. Those lines are called the grid ...

One of the biggest hurdles to decarbonizing the grid is getting electricity from point A to point B. But that’s often easier said than done. Today, nearly a terawatt of zero-carbon generating capacity ...

Latest project will Save Consumers Transmission Line Rebuild Costs and Reduce Curtailment of Renewable Energy Projects by 350MW, while expanding overall grid capacity National Grid is an electricity, ...

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National Grid has announced that LineVision's sensors will be installed on transmission lines in western New York to increase grid capacity and reduce curtailment of planned renewable generation ...

Experts claim power grid infrastructure needs to be upgraded to accommodate the vast amount of renewable energy expected to be added to the system in coming decades. That could require billions of ...

America's electricity demand is soaring. The rise of data centers, electric vehicles (EVs), and a rebounding manufacturing industry has pushed the power grid to its limits. To keep up, the U.S. needs ...

The energy transition is accelerating—but the infrastructure that delivers electricity isn’t keeping pace. As electric vehicles, heat pumps, and AI-driven data centers push demand to record highs, the ...

On a cloudy day in mid-July, a crew of technicians carried a shiny metal orb, about the size and weight of a kid’s bowling ball, under a 110-kilovolt transmission line running near Hamburg, Germany.