The event has raised concerns from regulators and elected officials, who have scheduled multiple upcoming hearings about why ...

Louisiana's nuclear plants faced outages and reduced output in 2023, contributing to a major power shutdown amid rising ...

Louisiana’s electric grid was missing a huge amount of power ... to avoid a “catastrophic” blackout similar to a recent crisis in Spain and Portugal, according to an internal memo.

Louisiana Public Service Commissioner Eric Skrmetta discussed a $2 billion investment aimed at hardening the electrical grid, a joint effort between the state and utility provider Entergy.

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After a series of devastating hurricanes wreaked havoc on Louisiana’s electric grid in 2020 and 2021, utilities and regulators tried in vain to get federal help to offset the costs of rebuilding ...

Texas’ electric grid will be connected to Louisiana and Mississippi through a new privately built transmission line subsidized by federal money. The Southern Spirit line, which is receiving $360 ...

More specifically, high voltage (HV) transformers are a particularly weak link in America’s power grid. Simply put, a transformer is a device that changes the voltage between two circuits.