One of the most important technologies that substantially influence the quality of our lives and is vastly underappreciated is the ubiquitous battery. Whether it's the lead-acid batteries that start ...

Emergency automatic transfer systems are vital for maintaining power in critical facilities such as hospitals, water treatment plants, and airports during utility outages. Proper training of ...

New York’s first state-owned utility-scale battery energy storage project is now operating in the North Country’s Franklin County. The 20-MW facility installed and operated by the New York Power ...

According to the U.S. National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL), a microgrid is a group of interconnected loads and distributed energy resources (DERs) that acts as a single controllable entity to ...

If Spider-Man’s uncle (or Voltaire, I guess) has taught us anything, it’s that with great power comes great responsibility. In an age of unprecedented load growth spurred by resource-intensive, always ...

Climate activists have set their sights on a new target in the fight to slow global warming: utilities. In November, the movement for public power faced its biggest test yet in Maine. Residents voted ...

HOLLY SPRINGS, Miss. — Annthiesa Warren has grown so accustomed to frequent power outages in her tiny north Mississippi town that she gets wary if there’s a rainy or gusty day in the forecast. “A ...

An experiment is underway in Ann Arbor, Michigan, that could change how communities generate and distribute power in the future. The city, with voters’ strong support, is launching its own sustainable ...

A tsunami of demand for artificial intelligence and data computation promises to plant stacks of servers in Wyoming. Those servers will require a volume of electricity that will eclipse the state’s ...