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 ...

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 ...

The United States should strive toward an energy system with fewer barriers to innovation and more opportunities for consumers to access affordable and dependable power systems, decide how and when ...

The ability of engine-powered generators to start and supply standby power of acceptable frequency and voltage within 10 seconds of a utility outage has made these generators the standby power system ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Michigan power companies can’t stand in the way of residents using the batteries inside their Ford electric vehicles to keep the lights on during power outages, state utility regulators have ruled.