The Power Line is a newsletter series that reviews key stories in the electric power sector—ranging from grid reliability, transmission issues, and emergent technology and business models. The Power ...

The problem is, there’s no guarantee that the message will get delivered,” says Anne Thomas Manes, an analyst at Burton Group in Midvale, Utah. “It offers 92% to 96% reliability, but if you need 99.9% ...

While charging comparably high electric rates, Michigan utilities continue to rank among the worst in the nation in reliability. Now, the Public Service Commission (PSC) wants them to increase their ...

Today’s generative AI is capable of amazing things. It can seemingly understand what we say and provide very humanlike responses to our queries. It can identify things in pictures, and come up with ...

ChargerHelp!’s 2025 report shows only 71% of charging attempts succeed, despite stations reporting 98.7–99% uptime. Software incompatibilities, aging hardware, and fragmented systems are major causes ...

Tesla’s newest reliability problem is not about the latest Model Y rolling off the line, but about what happens to those cars after years of hard use. A major owner survey of long-term dependability ...