High Winds in Denver Prompt Warnings About Dangerous Fire Risk NYT | Top Stories By: Jack Healy and Amy Graff 20 December 2025 at 07:04 Emergency authorities across the region urged people to stay home, and a utility company cut off power to 100,000 of its customers near Denver. © RJ Sangosti/The Denver Post, via Associated PressPower poles along U.S. Highway 93 near Golden, Colo., were snapped in half during a wind storm this week.
How Batteries Got Cheaper and Made the Electric Grid More Reliable NYT | China By: Ivan Penn and Ruth Fremson 5 December 2025 at 18:00 An early grid battery was installed in the Atacama Desert in Chile 15 years ago. Now, as prices have tumbled, they are increasingly being used around the world.