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 ...

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) ...

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 ...

Decentralised microgrids are proving critical to accelerating electrification, easing energy constraints and improving ...

Georgia is a perfect example of how one state’s emergence as a major technology hub for data center development (amid the AI and EV boom) is playing out. It is positioned to be a key player in this ...

Get your news from a source that’s not owned and controlled by oligarchs. Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily. So when PG&E approached Gillogly about installing a solar- and battery-powered ...

Over the long term, hurricanes can cause deaths in numbers 300 times higher than immediate deaths, according to a study ...