Power is policy now—and everyone’s rewriting the rules: Beijing cuts data-center bills, U.S. utilities pivot from gear to skills, and SPP tries to fix the queue at the root.
America’s power story is colliding timelines: utilities plan in decades; AI scales in quarters.
AI’s power binge just met three powerful counter-moves: a federal-backed nuke buildout, regulators drawing new lines, and a U.S. solar supply chain finally stitched end-to-end.
Peak demand surges 50%, Big Tech revives nukes, and DOE wants more power over power.
Planning rules, private nuclear, and a public-private fusion roadmap—all against a backdrop of surging storage and AI-driven load.
After decades of political control and blackout after blackout, Puerto Rico’s grid is finally being rebuilt — and this time, physics and markets might win... let's hope.
PJM says tens of gigawatts of batteries or prices go vertical, New York’s reserve margins erode without firm megawatts, and the Army lines up reactors for nine bases.
DOE signals a purge at clean-energy grant shops, Radiant ditches Wyoming for Oak Ridge over waste rules, and our map shows which grids carried (or shed) load.
Why the future of the grid depends on better wires, not bigger plans.
Senate hands FERC a Republican majority, the new global renewables outlook doubles capacity but cuts the U.S. forecast, and Ember says wind/solar finally edge out coal worldwide.
Vacancies vanish in colocation markets as power bottlenecks mount, Russian state hackers target U.S. critical infrastructure, and Texas regulators balk at Entergy’s gas buildout costs.
A temporary Democrat takes the FERC gavel, DOT revives stalled EV charging funds, and Interior sharpens its talons on wind developers. The grid sits at the center of every fight.
