The UK’s electricity ‘supergrid’ was built in the 1950s – designed for a different era that was reliant on fossil fuels. Here we explore why in an increasingly connected and electrified world, it need ...

More EVs and a growing demand for power will require upgrades to the grid, although coming technologies may end up lowering electric bills for everyone. Large-scale ...

There’s a technology sitting idle in garages and driveways across America that provides a solution to its own potential problem. As more and more electric vehicles tap the grid, their giant batteries ...

More than 560 million people in sub-Saharan Africa live without electricity. About 384 million live in countries classified ...

In tropical cities, afternoon thunderstorms can plunge entire neighborhoods into brief moments of darkness.  When civil ...