Ian King says the kind of synchronized energy demand we experience on New Year’s Eve isn’t typical. AI is helping to keep the ...
Rising electricity demand from EVs and AI is stressing a grid built of centralized, rotating generators. Renewables can provide fill the rising demand, but are they “grid ...
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Irvine’s CTC Global collaborates with Google on power transmission project IRVINE — CTC Global in Irvine and tech giant Google are teaming up to improve the U.S. electric grid as data centers increase ...
Johanna Mathieu works for the University of Michigan. She has received funding from the National Science Foundation, Department of Energy, ARPA-E, and the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation. She is affiliated ...
In February 2021, Texas came within four minutes and 37 seconds of a complete statewide blackout. A winter storm knocked out 40 percent of the state’s grid capacity in just four hours, leaving ...
As summer arrives, people are turning on air conditioners in most of the U.S. But if you’re like me, you always feel a little guilty about that. Past generations managed without air conditioning – do ...
Fort McCoy’s Directorate of Public Works (DPW) and Xcel Energy continue to work together to finish the process of changing ...
Depending on whom you’re asking, renewable energy and electric vehicles will either destroy the grid or save it. The sun doesn’t always shine and the wind doesn’t always blow, true enough, while a gas ...
"We currently seem to be overpredicting how much power we need." New study makes unexpected finding on strategy to reduce strain on the electric grid: 'A sterling bit of work' first appeared on The ...
Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. A new partnership aims to reduce the strain on the power grid while boosting electric vehicle adoption by putting money back in ...