Are Microgrids More Important than the Smart Grid? Corona, California, August 28, 2012 – The deployment of sophisticated intelligent microgrids, in particular dc microgrids, including energy storage ...

Why spend $1.7 million to replace an old underwater cable supplying diesel power when you can build something new that’s more cost- and energy-efficient? That’s the philosophy behind a plan to build a ...

Both rural and urban communities around the world are looking at ways to secure their energy networks, ensuring that they are resilient in the face of changing needs. Increasingly these communities ...

UC Santa Cruz’s group of researchers were the winning team of the L2RPN Delft 2023, a competition which invited participants from around the world to use reinforcement learning or similar techniques ...

Distributed energy resources (DERs) have become a major part of the power generation landscape, particularly in support of a more reliable and resilient grid. Generating electricity from a variety of ...

We’ve got a really big economic and environmental problem. The good news is there may be a backdoor way to solve it with both economic and environmental payoffs. The problem is the nationwide electric ...

The smart grid offers great promise to transform the electric system, enabling two-way communication between providers and consumers over the network, and allowing new services that can save ...

Phil Goldstein is a former web editor of the CDW family of tech magazines and a veteran technology journalist. He lives in Washington, D.C., with his wife and their animals: a dog named Brenna and two ...

The Smart Energy Lab consists of an integrated system of Electrical Energy subsystems. Built by Lucas Nuelle, a German leading provider in education and training, the lab deploys smart electric gird ...

If we compare our modern world to the human body, the energy grid would fit the description of the bloodline, powering the entire ecosystem. Similar to the ‘always on’, uninterrupted oxygen supply to ...