Electricity failure in the United States is no longer an abstract possibility. New outage mapping tools are transforming grid vulnerability into something spatial, measurable, and deeply regional.

The modern United States runs on an invisible machine of wires, transformers, data centers, and control rooms. If that machine failed all at once, life would not simply get less convenient, it would ...

A winter wallop that delivered a blast of Arctic air to two-thirds of the United States last weekend brought with it power failures, partially due to snow, ice and falling trees or branches damaging ...

It’s not just red tape that’s limiting the supply of electricity in America. Grids are physical machines, and they’re short ...

A deadly and historic winter storm that has impacted a 2,300-mile swath of the country with snow, ice and power outages has prompted moves to ramp up power production from coal, while putting it and ...