Buildings are evolving from passive consumers to active grid resources, helping to balance energy demand during peak hours. Industry standards such as OpenADR and CTA-2045 facilitate interoperability ...

With demand surging and infrastructure struggling to keep pace, virtual power plants are turning millions of homes and ...

Distributed generation is not a new concept. The first power plants, including Thomas Edison’s Pearl Street Power station, were essentially distributed generation and constructed to serve a local area ...

The new GPU-based solver significantly accelerates power flow calculations compared to industry standard legacy tools ; ...

The use of distributed energy resources (DERs) will continue to grow as utilities, businesses, and residential neighborhoods look for ways to balance the power grid and support more reliable and ...

In the early days of telecom deregulation, it was said that customers learned BYOB (Be Your Own Bell). In today’s energy environment, the acronym could be BYOE — “Be Your Own Edison.” With the ...

Although not nearly as exciting as extra-terrestrials that may threaten our planet one day, there are existing threats to the quality of our power grid. Non-linear loads – fluorescent and LED lighting ...

The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) has selected National Grid for a $50 million grant to deploy its Future Grid Project worth $140 million to boost usage of distributed energy resources (DERs) and ...

Upgraded equipment, new software, and innovations to serve both residential, and commercial and industrial customers are changing the solar power industry. Decentralized power generation continues to ...

The discussion of grid defection has reemerged with the changes in the technical capabilities of distributed resources, the growth of data center demand, and questions about whether utilities are up ...