was known as Thomas A. Edison’s Pearl Street Station in 1883. That same year, Wilkes-Barre’s Excelsior Electric Co. opened, marking the second power plant in the United States. Hazleton has been ...

EVs haven’t only become newsworthy in the 21st century. The Tennessean, part of the USA TODAY Network, has been covering them for more than a hundred years.

Perhaps the person most responsible for selling electricity in its early days to Cedar Rapidians was Louise Hathaway. In the summer of 1909, Hathaway was hired as a temporary stenographer for ...

Over the millennia, the phenomenon known as electricity has meant different things to different people. In ancient societies, electricity—or more specifically lightning—was inspiration for some of the ...

WASHINGTON (AP) -- The history of electric cars is going on display at the Smithsonian's National Museum of American History with two electrifying cars from the early 20th century. A 1904 Columbia ...

A Historic Shift in Energy Production A recent report from Ember, an organization dedicated to tracking global energy ...

Texas' energy market is unlike those in other states in two distinct ways: It has its own electric grid and it's deregulated. Sam Becker is a freelance writer whose work has appeared in and on CNBC, ...

On Monday’s show: We talk about the divided response to a death penalty case in Texas, how we got a deregulated energy market and what it has meant for consumers, and we discuss the latest ...