To avoid rising energy costs each month, you must first understand how energy consumption works. Various factors contribute to increasing energy costs, including appliances that we use more often ...

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Did you know you may have a huge battery in your basement or utility closet? I didn’t. It’s been hiding in plain sight there for years, and Power X wants to unlock its potential for you. I sat down to ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Tyler Lizenby/CNET If you want to keep an eye on how much energy your household uses and how you can reduce some of your monthly ...

Central Mississippi is under an excessive heat warning, forcing people to stay inside and crank up the air conditioning. But too much stress on the power grid could overload the system and lead to ...

Houston – Saving on electricity means turning off devices and lights and bumping up your thermostat to a temperature some of you may think is uncomfortable. Many of you don’t do it because you don’t ...

The Electric Reliability Council of Texas, which manages the state’s main power grid, has a dashboard that allows residents ...

A new system can monitor the behavior of all electric devices within a building, ship, or factory, determining which ones are in use at any given time and whether any are showing signs of an imminent ...

The days of the meter reader are coming to an end for Delmarva Power, which is introducing new ways for customers to track their own energy usage. Installation of the new “smart meters” is nearly ...