Electricity is essential to everyday life. It keeps us warm, fed and informed. But the components that make up the grid – and the terminology that describes it – can feel complex and at times, hard to ...

Johanna Mathieu works for the University of Michigan. She has received funding from the National Science Foundation, Department of Energy, ARPA-E, and the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation. She is affiliated ...

Fort McCoy’s Directorate of Public Works (DPW) and Xcel Energy continue to work together to finish the process of changing the electrical grid on post from a Delta Electrical System to a Wye ...

The Gazette offers audio versions of articles using Instaread. Some words may be mispronounced. You’re glad you went home early — the roads were flooded with rainwater and it’s only gotten worse since ...

Depending on whom you’re asking, renewable energy and electric vehicles will either destroy the grid or save it. The sun doesn’t always shine and the wind doesn’t always blow, true enough, while a gas ...