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A relentless six-day stretch of severe thunderstorms battered the Midwest and Great Lakes last week, with repeated bow echoes driving straight-line wind damage across Illinois, Indiana, and neighboring states. All told, nearly two million customers were affected by outages, with roughly 800,000 in the dark at the peak, making it the largest thunderstorm-driven outage event…

With 160 million people across 30 states under heat alerts, the U.S. Department of Energy has declared a grid emergency, directing the nation’s largest grid operator to take extraordinary measures to prevent blackouts. Heat indices are forecast to reach 110 degrees or higher from Chicago to Washington, D.C., electricity demand is threatening a record that…

A sobering new analysis finds the United States has experienced at least one major power outage event every single month of 2026, from January’s catastrophic southern ice storm to March’s twin blizzard and severe weather disasters, June’s two-million-customer Midwest storm siege, and this month’s record-challenging heat emergency. Storm after storm is hammering an aging grid,…