March 3, 2003 — In 1996, a sagging power line in Oregon brushed against a tree, and within minutes 12 million customers in eight states lost power. Such is the vulnerability of today’s power grid. To ...

Adam Stone writes on technology trends from Annapolis, Md., with a focus on government IT, military and first-responder technologies. Artificial intelligence, particularly generative AI, is putting ...

Microgrids have long been viewed as bespoke energy systems mostly deployed by universities, hospitals, and corporations looking to ensure power reliability and reduce costs. Widespread outages caused ...

Resilience, sustainability, cost savings, and more are behind the increasing adoption of microgrids, as a variety of industries and enterprises seek greater control of their energy supply. Microgrids ...

HOUSTON--(BUSINESS WIRE)--The Texas Reliability Coalition (TRC) is launching an educational outreach initiative today to engage the public and elected officials about the Utility-Scale Microgrid (USM) ...

A project exploring how microgrids can help lower emissions from industrial and commercial sites in the North East is moving into proof-of-concept phase after securing £500,000 from Ofgem’s Strategic ...

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 ...

This blog post was authored by Kimley-Horn Electrical Engineers Joe Bradshaw, PE, Chris Hanna, PE, and John Wujek, PE. Microgrids are localized energy systems that operate independently from a wider ...

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