{"id":293879,"date":"2026-09-25T17:56:07","date_gmt":"2026-09-25T17:56:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/293879\/"},"modified":"2026-09-25T17:56:07","modified_gmt":"2026-09-25T17:56:07","slug":"energy-department-will-spend-2-billion-to-squeeze-more-electricity-from-the-aging-power-grid","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/293879\/","title":{"rendered":"Energy Department will spend $2 billion to squeeze more electricity from the aging power grid"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-apitype=\"text\" data-contentid=\"75V6YWICQZHDTLVSL2DQYP6664\" data-el=\"text\" class=\"wpds-c-heFNVF wpds-c-heFNVF-iPJLV-css overrideStyles font-copy\" dir=\"null\">ALLENTOWN, Pa. \u2014 The Energy Department said Thursday that it will spend almost $2 billion to try to squeeze more electricity out of the nation\u2019s aging and stressed power grid, as President Donald Trump\u2019s administration steps up efforts to <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/power-electricity-ai-plants-data-centers-grid-506e3d206871111f15c3c62fc5368be5\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">avoid blackouts<\/a> amid skyrocketing energy demand <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/trump-ai-data-centers-pledge-490ea7e4c7227d5e550b00a0056c33c9\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">spurred by artificial intelligence<\/a> .<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"ALLENTOWN, Pa. \u2014 The Energy Department said Thursday that it will spend almost $2 billion to try to&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":293880,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[119,121,120,1609,60,5535,2116,11363,38,2963,50,44,121698,10224],"class_list":["post-293879","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-allentown","tag-allentown","tag-allentown-headlines","tag-allentown-news","tag-artificial-intelligence","tag-business","tag-climate-and-environment","tag-data-centers","tag-energy-industry","tag-general-news","tag-information-technology","tag-politics","tag-u-s-news","tag-us-energy-power-grid","tag-washington-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/293879","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=293879"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/293879\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/293880"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=293879"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=293879"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=293879"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}