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 ...

A new AI model that optimizes the use of renewables and other energy sources outperforms traditional power restoration techniques for islanded microgrids, a new paper shows. It's a story that's become ...

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 ...

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 ...

Critical facilities, such as hospitals, emergency service providers, transportation hubs and military bases, require back-up sources of power in the event of electric grid outages, especially in areas ...

Grids make sense. They really do. The notion, popular enough among techno-libertarian types, that every single power-consuming unit (house, factory, bunker) might be better off generating its own ...

As the U.S. Senate prepares to take up the climate bill, power companies anticipate a provision that would limit power plant emissions and impose a federal standard requiring a significant use of ...

Around 1.2 billion people worldwide do not yet have access to electricity. With microgrids, even remote places can be electrified, with renewable energies that are climate-neutral and sustainable.

According to the Advanced Energy Now 2019 Market Report, within the electricity delivery and management segment of advanced energy, it is noteworthy that advanced metering infrastructure (AMI) had two ...

Self-contained, small islands of electric generation, storage and distribution inside the existing grid–microgrids–could be the next big thing in electricity. But some argue they may be just another ...

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 ...

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 ...