Experts from several top electronics companies discuss how requirements are changing for distributed generation equipment, and the new semiconductor technology that’s helping solve those issues. In ...

The digital revolution transforming various industries—illustrated by our articles on smart factories and smart cities—is profoundly reshaping the electricity sector. Governments, energy utilities, ...

WASHINGTON ― Net metering practices should be revised to reflect the value that distributed electricity generation ― for example, electricity generated by rooftop solar panels ― can provide to society ...

On the heels of the announcement of a $60-million grant from the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) for upgrades to and coordination of the country's three major interconnection transmission networks ...

Portland General Electric has outlined a path to net-zero emissions that relies on tripling clean energy assets and utilizing customer-sited distributed energy resources for grid resiliency.(Courtesy: ...

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 ...

Distributed energy storage (DES) is an enabling technology for the future power grid. Largely consisting of advanced electrochemical batteries, DES systems increase the efficiency of large centralized ...

Residential applications for smart grid technologies continue to grow as electricity customers take more control of their energy usage and costs. Homeowners with rooftop solar have been selling power ...

The $100 million government smart grid technology trial known as Smart Grid, Smart City has released a final report attempting to summarise their evaluation of the cost-effectiveness of smart grid ...

While building new renewable capacity is an important step in the energy transition, connecting this capacity to existing grid infrastructure, and optimising grid connections, are necessary to deliver ...

Sense, a grid technologies company, is debuting services enabling utilities to detect distributed energy resources (DERs) and other energy loads in the ...

Ambient Corp. has announced that all of its Smart Grid Nodes fully support DNP3 protocol, which enables local data aggregation and control at distributed locations on the utility grid. Ambient Corp.