Electric substations may look confusing, but they’re the control centers that keep electricity safe and reliable. In this video, we break down how substations work, what equipment you see inside them, ...

How a new startup plans to power satellites with lasers. A new class of ultrafast AI chips also uses lasers. And startup Axiomatic AI is building better AI models for science and engineering.

In February 2021, Texas came within four minutes and 37 seconds of a complete statewide blackout. A winter storm knocked out 40 percent of the state’s grid capacity in just four hours, leaving ...

ComEd launched a new simulated substation control room to train its engineers in a safe and controlled setting.

In Nebraska, a publicly owned utility deftly tackles the challenges of delivering on reliability, affordability, and sustainability. One morning in the middle of March, a slow-moving spring blizzard ...

Charles Proteus Steinmetz was a towering figure in the early decades of electrical engineering, easily the intellectual equal of Thomas Edison and Nikola Tesla—men he considered his friends. One of ...

A recent report by the global technology company Schneider Electric forecasts potential problems for America's electric grid if more is not done to meet surging power demand. The company's grid ...

One of the nicest comments people have made about the electrical grid was … nothing. The grid works best when it fades into the background. That low-profile status has changed in recent years as fires ...

The growing fleet of electric vehicles has both the potential to strain the electric grid while charging and the ability to stabilize the grid by discharging as needed using vehicle-to-grid (V2G) ...