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Growing Grid Strategy: Undergrounding Power Lines to Withstand Weather
The power generation sector, including electric utilities and grid operators, recognizes the value of moving equipment underground to mitigate outages, lessen risks to assets, and reduce the chances of that equipment causing a wildfire.
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Advanced Technologies Tackling Task of Grid Hardening
Companies are deploying a variety of strategies in efforts to strengthen the power grid against severe weather and other issues.
From Backup to Prime Power: How AI Data Centers Are Bypassing the Grid
Data centers have traditionally depended on uninterruptible power supply (UPS) systems and backup generators to keep them online during a power cut, grid event, or natural disaster. But the critical…
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77 Miles, One Drone: Rewriting the Rules of Infrastructure Inspection
Transmission corridors can be difficult to inspect, sometimes requiring helicopters and boots on the ground. A Daytona Beach, Florida, company is using drones to improve the process—at roughly a quarter of
 
The Heat Is On: Summer Safety for Power Crews
Summer is the season utilities brace for. Demand peaks as air conditioners run flat out, equipment runs hot, and the workforce that keeps the grid alive does so under some…
How the Power Sector Is Bracing for a More Violent Climate
Utilities, federal agencies, and the national labs have finally assembled the tools to harden the grid against an increasingly hostile environment. The question is whether they can put them together…
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Building a Storm-Ready Grid: Why Operations Matter as Much as Infrastructure
Extreme weather is making one thing clear—hardening of the power grid alone is not enough to solve the problem of keeping the lights on.
The POWER Interview: Hardening Power Systems to Withstand Natural Disasters
The power sector recognizes the urgent need to harden the power grid, which involves upgrading and fortifying electrical infrastructure to withstand severe weather, cyberattacks, and surging demand for electricity. The…
The POWER Interview: Quantum Computing's Importance for Utilities and Power Generators
Dr. Remy Notermans, director of Strategic Planning for Atom Computing, a Boulder, Colorado-based group developing large-scale quantum computers, recently provided POWER with information about how quantum computing works. Notermans discussed how quantum computing can benefit electric utilities and the power generation sector.
Phantom Data Centers Didn't Break the Power Grid—They Proved It Was Already Broken
The requests flooding interconnection queues come from data center developers, private equity funds, land brokers, and shell companies, many of whom lack site control, a construction timeline, or even a signed customer. They secure a queue position, bet that powered land will attract a buyer, and wait. The industry calls them "phantom data centers," and the grid isn't prepared to handle them.
The Hidden Bottleneck Slowing DER Interconnection—and What Utilities Can Do About It
Utilities are under increasing pressure to move distributed energy resources (DER) through interconnection queues more quickly. In many regions, review timelines have stretched from months into years as requests for solar, storage, and electric vehicle infrastructure continue to rise.
CISA’s CI Fortify Initiative Signals a Shift in How the U.S. Government Thinks About Grid Threats
On May 5, 2026, the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) released its CI Fortify initiative, new guidance instructing electric utilities and other critical infrastructure (CI) operators to plan for…
Wildfire Risk Is Rising. Electric Cooperatives Are Acting—Congress Must Too
Wildfires are no longer isolated disasters limited to the western United States—they are a growing threat to communities, infrastructure, and electric grid reliability nationwide. For the 42 million Americans served…
Why the Power Grid Must Be Modernized Now to Handle EV Growth
The electric vehicle (EV) charging conversation in America has focused largely on hardware: how many ports, what power level, where to locate them. That framing misses the more consequential challenge.…
A Roadmap for Breaking Through the Power Demand Bottleneck in Data Center Construction
With many hyperscale data centers requiring hundreds of megawatts of reliable, uninterrupted power, contractors often find themselves stuck between a rock and a hard place.
Managing AI’s Footprint in a Carbon-Constrained World
Behind even the smallest convenience powered by AI is a massive surge of computing power for training models and inference. All that computing power requires energy.
Aligning Data Center Growth with Community Acceptance in a Constrained Grid
Grid capacity and the interconnection queue aren’t the only constraints on U.S. data center growth. Community acceptance is becoming the toughest bottleneck to break through, and a hot political topic with the approach of the midterm elections.
The Insurance Engine Behind Energy Growth
The global energy landscape is undergoing a profound transformation. Increasing demand for power driven by the proliferation of data centers, the rapid adoption of electric vehicles (EVs), expansive manufacturing, and…