Jul 7, 2025 · DOE’s report identifies regions most vulnerable to outages under various weather and retirement scenarios and offers capacity targets needed to restore acceptable reliability. The …

The Urban Climate Lab Blackout Tracker reports the monthly and annual frequency of electrical grid blackout events across the United States. The data comes from Electric Power Monthly reports, …

Jul 10, 2025 · The report follows a series of incidents, such as the 2021 Texas freeze and New York’s 2019 blackout, highlighting the vulnerability of the grid. With demand growing rapidly, experts say …

Jul 9, 2025 · A new report from the U.S. Department of Energy has ignited serious concern among energy officials, grid operators, and policy experts.

Apr 3, 2024 · Soaring energy demands and unprecedented heatwaves have placed the U.S. on the brink of a severe threat with the potential to impact millions of lives: widespread grid failure across multiple …

Recent major blackouts were largely caused by extreme weather conditions that are increasingly impacting the ability of the power system to provide reliable electricity.

Jan 13, 2025 · As old fossil fuel-fired power plants retire and new resources fail to keep up with demand, grids across Canada and the United States face “mounting resource adequacy challenges” over the …

Nov 9, 2023 · NERC released its report ahead of a FERC technical conference today, focused on reliability.

Nov 25, 2025 · System-wide voltage reductions of 3 percent or more. Firm load shedding of 100 Megawatts or more implemented under emergency operational policy-- Generator loss or failure. …

May 19, 2025 · With the warning signs becoming far harder to ignore, North America’s power grid faces a massive storm ahead. Widespread blackouts could become the new norm across the United …