In February 2021, Texas came within four minutes and 37 seconds of a complete statewide blackout. A winter storm knocked out 40 percent of the state’s grid capacity in just four hours, leaving ...

Electricity failure in the United States is no longer an abstract possibility. New outage mapping tools are transforming grid vulnerability into something spatial, measurable, and deeply regional.

The US power grid is under significant stress due to rapidly increasing electricity demand from AI data centers and electric vehicles, coupled with the retirement of traditional power plants. The grid ...