Grid operators are racing to keep up with a surge of renewable power and a wave of electricity-guzzling data centers, and the old toolkit of short-duration lithium packs and gas peaker plants is no ...

A grid-scale battery in the Scottish Highlands got a chance to prove its mettle in March when, 11 days after it started up, a massive wood-burning generator in northern England shut down unexpectedly.

The Department of Energy's Pacific Northwest National Laboratory has begun the first tests of a utility-grade battery at the ...

Converted from standard shipping containers, container homes offer advantages such as low construction cost, robust structure ...

Residential applications for smart grid technologies continue to grow as electricity customers take more control of their energy usage and costs. Homeowners with rooftop solar have been selling power ...

Texas has always charted its own course, especially when it comes to energy. The Electric Reliability Council of Texas (ERCOT), which manages about 90% of the state's electric load, operates ...

Rising electricity demand from EVs and AI is stressing a grid built of centralized, rotating generators. Renewables can ...

The Moss Landing Power Plant was, until recently, California’s largest electric power station. This former gas generator is now being pulled out of mothballs and transformed into California’s (and for ...

In an age where power outages are increasingly common due to extreme weather events and infrastructural challenges, the need for reliable backup power solutions has never been more critical. The Grid ...

The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission last week issued a 40-page draft “Smart Grid Policy.” Power generators nationwide could be affected by the policy’s call to develop standards to address the ...

How much PV is needed in an hybrid solar-diesel mini-grid? Researchers in Brazil have suggested using solar radiation databases and simulator software to scale PV-diesel mini-grid generators. The ...