In recent years, Texas’ electrical grid has struggled to meet demand, a situation that becomes especially dire during times of high stress. When the winter storm of 2021 knocked large parts of the ...

Gov. Kathy Hochul wants your household to become part of a “virtual power plant” to help ease strain on the electric grid. The details haven’t been settled, but here’s the general idea proposed by the ...

Electric utilities globally are being compelled to upgrade their existing distribution and transmission systems due to the rising demand for load by residential, commercial, and industrial customers.

The Department of Energy (DOE) has initiated a new “enabling” pathway to achieve and sustain a dramatic transformation of the nation’s evolving grid—through its power electronics fabric, with the ...

Power grids carry the seeds of their own destruction: massive flows of electricity that can race out of control in just seconds, threatening to melt the very lines that carry them. Built in the days ...

Explore how flexible grid frequency management can enhance reliability, affordability, and clean energy integration in modern ...

At a remote substation in the Midwest, I watched recently as a team of cybersecurity specialists gathered not to fix a breach but to simulate one. The substation—a medium-impact test site built by one ...