True or false? Smart grids will revolutionize the way we consume electricity and dramatically shift the decision-making power away from utilities and its centralized power grid. "In most places, we ...

A new AI model that optimizes the use of renewables and other energy sources outperforms traditional power restoration techniques for islanded microgrids, a new paper shows. It's a story that's become ...

New Mexico Tech has secured $3.3 million to develop a smart microgrid at its Playas Research and Training Center. The ...

Both rural and urban communities around the world are looking at ways to secure their energy networks, ensuring that they are resilient in the face of changing needs. Increasingly these communities ...

Around 1.2 billion people worldwide do not yet have access to electricity. With microgrids, even remote places can be electrified, with renewable energies that are climate-neutral and sustainable.

As the U.S. Senate prepares to take up the climate bill, power companies anticipate a provision that would limit power plant emissions and impose a federal standard requiring a significant use of ...

Grids make sense. They really do. The notion, popular enough among techno-libertarian types, that every single power-consuming unit (house, factory, bunker) might be better off generating its own ...

Microgrids can take advantage of local renewable energy sources such as rooftop solar panels or small wind turbines to restore power in outages. It’s a story that’s become all too familiar — high ...

UC Santa Cruz’s group of researchers were the winning team of the L2RPN Delft 2023, a competition which invited participants from around the world to use reinforcement learning or similar techniques ...

Newswise — It’s a story that’s become all too familiar — high winds knock out a power line, and a community can go without power for hours to days, an inconvenience at best and a dangerous situation ...