Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Allan Marks is a lawyer who covers energy, infrastructure and climate. NERC’s 2025–2026 Winter Reliability Assessment examines ...

On October 20, 2025, an operational change in AWS’ US‑EAST‑1 region triggered a chain of failures across more than a hundred services. DNS resolution became unreliable, database endpoints were ...

The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) has approved the North American Electric Reliability Corporation's (NERC) risk-based approach to monitoring and enforcing compliance with mandatory ...

The North American Reliability Corporation (NERC) will for the first time consider “energy policy” among five significant evolving and interdependent risks to grid reliability. In its latest biennial ...

When the decision is made to retire a power plant, the work of getting there is just beginning. Maintaining safe and reliable generation requires strong leadership, clear communications, and ...

Reliability risk across North America is rising over the next decade as electricity demand growth, driven largely by new data centers, outpaces the pace of new generation, transmission and fuel ...

Reliability risks are spreading across much of the U.S. bulk power system, driven by rising peak demand forecasts and insufficient resource additions, the North American Electric Reliability Corp.

It’s impossible to put a price on safety at manufacturing and logistics facilities. World-class organizations know it’s directly tied to their ability to succeed. To meet productivity metrics, workers ...

Being able to connect devices to other devices has a long list of benefits, many of them related to the digitization of the analog or physical world. That includes all the benefits of being able to ...

Julia Kagan is a financial/consumer journalist and former senior editor, personal finance, of Investopedia. Somer G. Anderson is CPA, doctor of accounting, and an accounting and finance professor who ...

Dan Moskowitz is a financial writer who has 4+ years of experience creating content for the online reading market. Chip Stapleton is a Series 7 and Series 66 license holder, CFA Level 1 exam holder, ...