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Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. MS NOW Senior Legal Reporter Lisa Rubin explained to anchor Ana Cabrera in the immediate aftermath of the Supreme Court striking ...

For decades, electricity regulators have treated tight control of grid frequency as a basic sign of power system security. If the frequency stayed close to the nominal value, the system was considered ...

“Captive coal” is increasingly powering the nickel and aluminum industries, even after the country banned new coal plants. Indonesia’s coal use is rising, despite an initiative formerly backed by the ...

As many states across the nation brace for a severe winter storm this weekend, the Department of Energy is advising grid operators to use data centers as backup generation sources in case of a power ...

Jennifer Mayerle happily returned to Minnesota and WCCO, where she began her career as a summer intern. The Emmy and Edward R. Murrow award-winning journalist returned to WCCO as a reporter in 2014 ...

Britain increased the share of electricity generated from fossil fuels last year for the first time in four years, a reversal that highlights the challenges facing the government’s plan to run a clean ...

Imagine a restaurant open 24 hours a day, 7 days a week that always maintains a full staff. With the exception of weekend nights and the lunch rush, the restaurant will be empty a lot of the time. But ...

In the world of data centers, ensuring a facility will be online 99.999 percent of the time, is everything. Access to power is the number one priority when developers are trying to figure out where to ...

AI’s explosive growth depends on a backbone of vast energy-hungry, water intensive data centers, costing hundreds of billions of dollars in resources. The challenge—and opportunity—of the moment is ...

Depending on whom you’re asking, renewable energy and electric vehicles will either destroy the grid or save it. The sun doesn’t always shine and the wind doesn’t always blow, true enough, while a gas ...

Matthew Klein, an analyst at the nonpartisan Cook Political Report, breaks down the proposed Texas and California redistricting maps for the 2026 midterm elections and what it means for the balance of ...