Local electrical company reports increase in calls for backup power generators and energy storage as residents prepare for planned and unplanned power outages during extreme fire conditions.

The spending planned by Alphabet Inc., Amazon.com Inc., Meta Platforms Inc. and Microsoft Corp., all in pursuit of dominance in the still-nascent market for AI tools, is a boom without a parallel this ...

As severe winter weather tests the resilience of power grids already strained by data center development, the two largest U.S. grid operators are poised to tap backup generators at data centers to ...

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As punishing cold strains electric grids across the U.S., operators are considering ordering data centers to run diesel-powered backup generators, a move that threatens to push prices for distillate ...

Some EVs can power a home for several days using bidirectional charging technology. A home must have a special management system or transfer switch to receive power from an EV. Electric vehicles have ...

If you often lose power where you live, whether because of seasonal storms such as hurricanes or due to problems with the electrical grid, having a whole-house generator can be very convenient. It ...

Hardware stores in Greenville, South Carolina, sold out of generators ahead of a major winter storm. Shoppers faced shortages of other weather-related items like propane heaters and ice melt. Despite ...

In this file photo, Max and Kate Gaskins. with their three-month-old daughter Lana, fill a cooler with perishables after their Raleigh street lost power on Feb. 26, 2015, after a winter storm dumped ...

The San Antonio Water System will spend more than $340 million installing generators to ensure it can provide water service even during power outages. The city-owned water utility started the effort ...