The crossroad of South Ashland Avenue and West County Line Road, in Will County, Illinois, is a picture of classic midwestern rural America. Ashland Avenue, at that point, is barely wider than a lane.

Calls are mounting for the largest US grid operator to make electricity more affordable after power costs again surged to a new high. Households and businesses from New Jersey to Chicago will pay a ...

My husband and I built an off-grid cabin 10 years ago, and haven't looked back since. We've learned a lot through years of experience, but we made some mistakes when we first moved here. We should've ...

New gold-lettered signs were spotted across the White House this week as President Donald Trump continues to make alterations to the building. The gold lettering is just the latest in a long line of ...

Modernizing the electric grid involves more than upgrading control systems with sophisticated software—it requires embedding sensors and automated controls across the entire system. It’s not only the ...

The National Grid gas company must pay a total of $3.1 million to two ex-workers with health issues for rejecting their requests to continue working from home after the pandemic, a Brooklyn jury has ...

When my husband inherited rural land, we moved from the Northeast to live off-grid in West Virginia. Our experience has been challenging: I felt lonely at first, and our home requires a lot of upkeep.

The Army Corps of Engineers Wants to Dredge the Cape Fear River. Environmentalists Tally the Costs. Arizona Comes to Agreement With Major Dairy Farm to Cut Groundwater Pumping That Is Draining Wells ...

Peak Energy just switched on a 3.5 MWh sodium-ion battery, the largest sodium-ion energy storage project developed in the US. The system is the first of its kind at grid scale, and may eventually be a ...

The idea of using an electric vehicle’s battery to send energy from the EV to the electrical grid is not a new idea. Ars first covered the technology, known as vehicle-to-grid or V2G, back in 2009 ...

Artificial Intelligence (AI) is now a major force in the U.S. economy. The rapid expansion of data centers in the United States has emphasized the challenges facing the U.S. electricity sector, which ...

A smart electric meter at a National Grid customer’s home. Customers can track usage through the utility’s website. ALBANY — National Grid is in the process of installing so-called smart meters at the ...