Legacy load forecasting models are struggling with ever-more-common, unpredictable events; power-hungry AI offers a solution.

The United States power grid is being pushed harder than at any point in decades, and the strain is no longer theoretical.

The story of power generation in 2025 was shaped in no small part by urgency. Load growth forecasts accelerated again, driven by artificial intelligence, data centers and industrial expansion. At the ...

Le Xie, Professor of Electrical Engineering at the Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences (SEAS), ...

Across the U.S., new AI-driven data centers are causing a significant increase in power demand. Carbon Direct projects that data center capacity in the U.S. will grow from roughly 25 GW in 2024 to 120 ...

Given marching orders by the U.S. Energy Dept. to boost artificial intelligence sector growth, independent agency Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) now must absorb nearly 200 diverging power ...

It hasn’t been that long since humans figured out how to create power grids that integrated multiple generators and consumers. Ever since AC won the battle of the currents, grid operators have had to ...

Researchers in Spain have simulated an energy community with varying electric-vehicle penetration levels (0%, 50%, and 100%) to analyze system optimization under different regulatory frameworks and EV ...

One of the questions I’m asked most often is whether I think the future of power in the U.S. will be on-grid or off-grid. My answer is that it's the wrong question. Like most complex subjects—and ...

​The Electricity Supply Corporation of Malawi (ESCOM) announced a major leap in the country’s energy modernization with the ...

Pacific Gas & Electric Company (PG&E) has launched Seasonal Aggregation of Versatile Energy (SAVE), an Electric Program Investment Charge (EPIC) demonstration and virtual power plant (VPP), harnessing ...