California isn’t equipped to handle the emerging hotter, drier climate. That includes its electric grid.

At midnight on Wednesday, California’s largest utility begun cutting off power to customers across the northern part…

Saturday is the 42nd anniversary of the July 13-14, 1977 New York City blackout, which took out power to most of the…

Almost the entirety of the nations of Argentina and Uruguay, were “completely without power” following a “massive…

The last remaining reactor in operation at Pennsylvania’s Three Mile Island nuclear power plant—the site of the most…

The farther you get from the equator, the less effective solar panels become at reliably generating power all year…

Scientists in India observed the highest-voltage thunderstorm ever documented with the help of a subatomic particle…

Embattled Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro—whose administration has been faced with a massive economic crisis,…

A cat that broke into an electrical substation and unfortunately perished after coming into contact with…

Republicans may be lukewarm on climate policy, but they’re all about that wind energy, according to a report on the…

As the sun came up on Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin Islands after Hurricane Maria, it was clear life would be…

If a looming helium shortage isn’t enough to dissuade you from getting balloons for your next birthday party,…

A driver in Ontario, Canada, recently discovered that crashing your minivan into a power pole can have bigger…

Our planet is due to be hit with a powerful solar storm, an event that happens about once every hundred years. New…

There’s nothing I want to do more in life than to shoot a Tesla coil gun. Seeing those bolts of electricity fly out…

I don’t know what compels a person to run an electric current through a steel chain and then prance around with the…

This is definitely what you don’t want to see at a kid’s birthday party: a bounce house flying away straight into…

Tech-enthusiasts of the 1920s were obsessed with turning everything electric. They wanted electric mixing bowls,…

Everyone knows you can do some crazy stuff with magnets, but things get really insane when you start playing with…

Besides shooting an actual human or a pig carcass, the best way to determine the efficacy of a projectile—like a…