The Rise of AI Reasoning Models Comes With a Big Energy Tradeoff December 5, 2025 By Rachel Metz and Dina Bass Nearly all leading artificial intelligence developers are focused on building AI models that mimic the way humans reason, but new...
US Warns of Blackout Risk From Killing Coal as Trump Snubs Renewables July 8, 2025 By Ari Natter Blackouts in the US could double by 2030 amid an expected increase in power demand brought on by AI, according...
New England Electric Grid Under Precautionary Alert June 25, 2025 By Tim McLaughlin The electric grid for Boston and the surrounding region operated under a precautionary alert on Tuesday as the surplus of...
Adaptive Insurance, Tokio Marine HCC Partner on Power Outage Losses June 24, 2025 Adaptive Insurance, a provider of parametric insurance solutions, has partnered with specialty insurer Tokio Marine HCC on GridProtect—an insurance product...
China Poses ‘Alarming’ Threat to US Power Grid, Lawmakers Told July 19, 2023 By Ari Natter China represents an increasing threat to the US power grid, lawmakers were told Tuesday during a hearing in which they...
Attacks on U.S. Power Grids Rose to All-Time High in 2022 February 1, 2023 By Naureen S. Malik Attacks on US power grids rose to an all-time high last year, further straining the sprawling and aging network. The...
Texas Power Grid Operator Warns of Rolling Blackouts Amid Record Heat July 11, 2022 \The operator of Texas’s power grid on Sunday called on state residents for the second time this year to conserve...
After Texas Power Failures, South Carolina Gov Wants Winter Storm Review of Grid February 25, 2021 South Carolina Gov. Henry McMaster wants the state’s electric providers to review their power grids to see if they could...
Largest U.S. Electric Company On Alert for Cyberattacks December 23, 2015 The country’s largest electricity company is on alert for cyberattacks that aim to hamper the critical flow of power and...
EQECAT Models $260 Mn Windstorm Risk Cat Bond for French Nat’l Power Co. August 15, 2011 Oakland-based catastrophe modeling firm EQECAT has provided risk modeling services to Electricité Réseau Distribution France S.A. (ERDF) for the issuance...