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Aging power plants and a projected "rapid growth" in electric usage over the next five to 10 years could stress the region’s power grids to their limits and pose challenges to electric system reliability, according to two new reports.

With the federal government locked in its shutdown, no federal funds for New York’s Home Energy Assistance Program have yet been allocated for its 2025-26 year.

Any meaningful slowdown in the growth of renewable energy and battery storage in the United States is likely to take a few years.

"CSEA filed an improper practice charge with PERB over the District Attorney’s Office’s rollout of an automated system that’s taking over work our members have always done," Local 830 president Kris Kalender said in an email statement.

The following is meant to explore the “What if…?” for a region that has a complex, vulnerable and aging power system. Rather than create fear, this is meant to examine the realities of our finite access to electricity at a time of growing power demands, the potential impact of severe weather and