Nation Sep 05 How AI infrastructure is driving a sharp rise in electricity bills By Geoff Bennett, Azhar Merchant
Nation May 30 After chronic outages, Puerto Rico governor pledges to improve island’s crumbling power grid Puerto Rico’s governor pledged Thursday to improve the island’s crumbling electric grid and boost the economy in her first address after being elected last year as anger intensifies over repeated power outages and an increase in cost-of-living expenses. By Dánica Coto, Associated Press
Politics Nov 15 What’s in the infrastructure plan? The $1 trillion infrastructure plan that President Joe Biden signed into law Monday has money for roads, bridges, ports, rail transit, safe water, the power grid, broadband internet and more. By Mary Clare Jalonick, Associated Press
Politics Jul 27 WATCH: House oversight hearing on defending the U.S. electric grid against cyber threats The House Oversight Committee held a hearing on defending the U.S. electric grid against cyber threats on Tuesday. By Associated Press
World Jul 16 Myanmar opposition targets state electricity company Offices and staff of EPC have been targeted since the government earlier this month began cutting off power to customers who did not pay their bills as a form of protest against February's military takeover. By Grant Peck, Associated Press
Aug 01 Watch 7:33 Does solar power offer a brighter future for off-the-grid Navajo residents? By Fred de Sam Lazaro Bypassed in the ‘30s and '40s, one third of homes in Navajo Nation still have no access to grid electricity. Yet ironically, it's a huge electricity exporter, with one of the biggest coal-fired plants churning out power sold to millions. Continue watching
Aug 07 The $2 trillion economic risk you haven’t heard about By Donald Goldsmith Beyond Earth's atmosphere lurks a threat that could knock out our electrical grid and cause catastrophic structural, not to mention economic, damage. The risk within the next decade is about as great as that of another earthquake shaking California. So… Continue reading
Jul 26 Solar ‘superstorm’ missed Earth in 2012 — but another could strike By Xander Landen Two years ago, the worst solar storm in almost two centuries tore through Earth's orbit. Luckily, the storm's path just missed Earth. Continue reading
Jul 05 Watch Report Blames Japanese Government for Nuclear Meltdown The day Japan reintroduced nuclear power to its electrical grid, an independent commission found the Japanese government at fault for the Fukushima nuclear reactor meltdown last year. Continue watching
Sep 19 Watch Restoring Power to Ike Victims Proves Tough Task When Hurricane Ike slammed into the Texas coast, the storm inflicted major damage to the electrical grid, leaving hundeds of thousands of people without power. Tom Bearden reports on the electrical grids in Southeast Texas and why restoring power has… Continue watching