Electric supplies from renewable energy, hydropower and batteries bolster vulnerable parts.

Four years ago, the utility said it needed to do more to prevent its power lines from emitting sparks. It made little progress, focusing on a shift to clean energy.

Power companies are preparing to spend the most money in decades to shift to renewable energy and replace aging infrastructure.

Behind a rising number of outages are new stresses on the system caused by aging power lines, a changing climate and a power-plant fleet rapidly going green

The transaction with Brookfield Renewable Partners and Cameco is a bet that nuclear power will play an important role in the transition away from fossil fuels as climate concerns and geopolitics have...

Wall Street Journal Reporter Katherine Blunt explains the California Wildfires.

U.S. fossil fuel consumption last year reached the lowest share in more than a century as...

The state welcomed wind and solar power for years, fueling rapid growth. Now Republicans want a rollback.

The wind and solar company, which has become the most valuable power company in the U.S., is talking about investing $20 billion in green hydrogen, banking on lucrative tax credits.

Electric-grid operators are warning that power-generating capacity is struggling to keep up with demand, a gap that could lead to rolling blackouts during heat waves or other peak periods as soon as...

California regulators are likely to significantly restrict the number of power lines the company can bury in the coming years in favor of other ways to reduce fire risk.

In an expensive gamble, the owner of Florida Power & Light says it plans to go “real zero” rather than “net zero.” It doesn’t expect to use carbon capture, credits or offsets.

Adam McKay's new movie isn't about climate change -- it's about an oncoming comet -- but it captures, like no work of art has, some of the strange & vertiginous aspects of being a climate hawk.

Rod West, group president of utility operations, says the damage to the transmission system in Louisiana and Mississippi is, in some cases, more severe than what the company experienced after...

Documents obtained by The Wall Street Journal show that the utility has long been aware that parts of its 18,500-mile transmission system were dangerously outdated. That includes towers on the line...

As wildfire risk spreads from Oregon to Hawaii, utilities weigh whether to leave customers in the dark when winds pick up.

The Texas energy giant will exit its Sakhalin project in Russia’s Far East, and make no new investments in the country, following similar moves by BP and Shell.

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The California utility spent more than $2 billion on an effort it says was ineffective. Its focus now is on power-line settings.

The deals are expected to fund upgrades to electricity-delivery systems as green-energy competition rises.

Form Energy says it has built a low-cost iron-air battery that can discharge electricity for days, which could have big ramifications for storing electricity on the power grid.

Georgia’s Vogtle nuclear plant could begin supplying power next spring after years of delays.

California Burning: The Fall of Pacific Gas and Electric--and What It Means for America's Power Grid

Millions of Texans were left without electricity as a rare winter storm boosted demand and crimped supplies. The grid operator cautioned outages could continue through Tuesday.

A group of American renewable-energy developers is making a $6 billion offer to solar manufacturers: Build panels in the U.S. and we will buy them.

The state’s electricity system was considered a model. This week’s outages revealed shortcomings in the market structure, including with incentives to producers.

The largest utility in drought-plagued California has struggled to reduce fire risks. Its equipment keeps igniting blazes, threatening the company’s future.

The Meta unit’s systems for fostering communities have guided users to child-sex content; company says it is improving internal controls.

The history of electric cooperatives is one of individuals striving to improve their local communities. Perhaps the most inspiring electric cooperative

The state implored businesses and households to cut power—and paid some of them—in a successful last-minute bid to head off controlled power outages.

The utility company plans to bury 10,000 miles of power lines to reduce wildfire risk in Northern California, at an estimated cost of up to $20 billion, reversing its earlier stance that doing so...

Possible sales from Dominion Energy and National Grid come as regulators debate fossil fuels’ future in home heating and cooking.

The Aloha State’s race to clean up its electricity sector makes it a real-world test case for rapid decarbonization.

Most major retailers reopened in the Houston area on Thursday for residents in need of...

Neglect, shoddy record-keeping and overlooked warnings added up to a crime, not an accident.

State investigators’ test accounts with AI-generated photos were deluged with sexual propositions and adult sex content, the suit claims. Meta says it works hard to protect young users.

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Falling costs and green mandates are boosting demand for batteries capable of storing large amounts of wind and solar power for later use.

Smith worked at The Wall Street Journal for more than 20 years covering the electricity industry.

The Meta unit’s systems for fostering communities have guided users to child-sex content; company says it is improving internal controls.