The Winter Storm Tested Power Grids Straining to Accommodate AI Data Centers

The winter storm tested power grids straining to accommodate AI data centers

Power lines during a winter storm in Irving, Texas, on Sunday, January 25th. | Photo: Getty Images The colossal winter storm that swept across 34 states left hundreds of thousands of people without electricity. Bitterly cold temperatures lingering after Winter Storm Fern are still testing power grids, already under stress from a rush of new AI data centers. Over the weekend, wholesale electricity prices soared in Virginia, the state with the mo…

Renewables power down as Winter Storm Fern heats up

"The weekend’s arctic blast has put much of the U.S. grid through a stress test and served as another alert about the growing risks to electric-power reliability. Americans can be grateful the Biden crowd didn’t succeed in forcing all coal plants to shut down." - WSJ In Episode 537 of

"Sleep Tight, America. We Got This": NatGas And Coal Power Plants Prevented Grid Collapse During Historic Winter Blast

"Sleep Tight, America. We Got This": NatGas And Coal Power Plants Prevented Grid Collapse During Historic Winter Blast Submitted by Criterion Research President James Bevan,  Winter Storm Fern's Arctic blast from January 21-26 provided clear data on generation dispatch patterns during extreme cold weather events. The storm stressed multiple U.S. power grids, such as PJM and ERCOT and demonstrated the operational characteristics of different gene…

The Grid Survived The Storm. Now Comes The Cold.

Winter Storm Fern made the final stand of its 2,300-mile arc across the United States on Monday as it finished dumping 17 inches of “light, fluffy” snow over parts of Maine. In its wake, the storm has left hundreds of thousands without power, killed more than a dozen people, and driven temperatures to historic lows.The grid largely held up over the weekend, but the bigger challenge may still be to come. That’s because prolonged low temperatures …

Power Plant Outages Leave Largest US Regional Grid With Thin Operating Margin - Energy News, Top Headlines, Commentaries, Features & Events

(Reuters) – The largest U.S. regional electric grid on Tuesday reported nearly 18 gigawatts of power plant outages, leaving a region of 67 million people with a thin buffer of power supplies against frigid weather and a forecast for record-breaking winter demand. The PJM Interconnection reported that most of the generation outages are due to ...

Power plant outages leave largest US regional grid with thin operating margin

(BOE Report) – The largest U.S. regional electric grid on Tuesday reported nearly 18 gigawatts of power plant outages, leaving a region of 67 million people with a thin buffer of power supplies against frigid weather and a forecast for record-breaking winter demand. The PJM Interconnection reported that most of the generation outages are due to power plants being forced offline amid freezing weather and constricted supplies of natural gas for the