When Hurricane Beryl tore through the Houston area, it knocked out electricity to nearly 85% of CenterPoint’s customers. While plenty of Houston residents have turned to home generators as a backup, ...

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When you buy through our links, Business Insider may earn an affiliate commission. Learn more When winter storms knock out the power, they rarely give much warning — and suddenly, everyday essentials ...

Rendering of DC Grid modular, direct current power generators using energy sources such as solar, renewable natural gas and biogas. Frustrated with the combination of what its founder terms ...

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Rising electricity demand from EVs and AI is stressing a grid built of centralized, rotating generators. Renewables can provide fill the rising demand, but are they “grid friendly”? A modern grid must ...