What is a microgrid and how does it work? New portable units allow you to “island” home energy for off-the-grid security. No, we’re not talking about miniature cooking pans for making tiny pancakes!

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Tracy K. Price is the founder of Qmerit, a leader in implementation solutions for EV charging and other electrification technologies. Energy costs are spiking for businesses and consumers. The Federal ...

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 ...

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

The government should consider expanding the availability of renewable microgrids as a cheaper and faster alternative to building nuclear small modular reactors (SMRs) to meet the energy needs of ...

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