Utilities are big and slow and doing a bad job preparing for the smart-grid-enabled future. Those who can’t wait are setting up smaller grids, which are becoming test sites for smart energy management ...

True or false? Smart grids will revolutionize the way we consume electricity and dramatically shift the decision-making power away from utilities and its centralized power grid. "In most places, we ...

Data-producing sensors combined with advanced analytics promise energy providers and consumers the tools to power a sustainable planet. he convergence of the digital and physical worlds known as the ...

Microgrids can take advantage of local renewable energy sources such as rooftop solar panels or small wind turbines to restore power in outages. It’s a story that’s become all too familiar — high ...

Powerhive is working with the US government to provide electricity for 20 million homes in Ethiopia, Ghana, Kenya, Liberia, Nigeria, and Tanzania. Image: Powerhive More than a century after the ...

The Galvin Electricity Initiative will initiate a dialogue among industry leaders at GridWeek 2009 to identify strategies for building smart microgrids -- small, local, modernized versions of the bulk ...

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 ...

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 ...

Millions of East Coasters have already lost power this week and millions more stand to lose it in the coming days. Our reliance on central power plants and large grids has a lot to do with this. Enter ...

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 ...