Heron Power, founded by former Tesla executive Drew Baglino, announced on Wednesday that it has raised $140 million to build gigawatts’ worth of solid-state transformers for data centers and the grid.

Before a recent winter storm swept through Houston in January, Jesus Contreras made sure he and his wife were prepared for “the absolute worst.” They didn’t want to be caught off guard as the whole ...

Solar panels are partially covered with snow at Gravel Pit Solar in East Windsor on Feb. 13, 2026. Credit: Shahrzad Rasekh / CT Mirror As more than a foot of snow fell on parts of Connecticut in the ...

Explosive A.I. growth is compressing decades of grid planning into years, forcing utilities and investors to rethink infrastructure. Unsplash+ Artificial intelligence has quickly become the focal ...

A Texas-headquartered energy company with installations in more than 20 states has brought a utility-scale battery energy storage project online in Maine. Plus Power on February 11 said the group’s ...

A winter storm brought freezing temperatures to much of the U.S. two weeks ago and still holds much of the Northeast in its grip. Americans cranked up the heat, posing the biggest test of the electric ...

Dancing linemen who dangled from power poles during the Super Bowl halftime show by Puerto Rican singer Bad Bunny were a pointed reference to the island’s power grid, which has been hit hard by a ...

Three weeks shy of five years since a winter storm overwhelmed Texas’ power grid and left millions freezing in the dark, Texans experienced another weekend of barren grocery shelves, closed schools ...

The darkness that swept over the Venezuelan capital in the predawn hours of Jan. 3, 2026, signaled a profound shift in the nature of modern conflict: the convergence of physical and cyber warfare.

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Mr. Meyer is a contributing Opinion writer and the founding executive editor of Heatmap, a media company focused on climate change. It might not be obvious, but it has been a bit of a challenge to ...