Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Llewellyn King has been a player in the energy space since 1970. It has become, in electric terms, the elephant in the room. That ...

If there is one technology which is truly essential and ubiquitous in our world, it’s electricity. Yet few of us have any idea how the power grid works. That’s going to have to change. Understanding ...

As we trend toward more renewables and distributed energy resources (DERs), the design of the electric distribution system itself imposes physical limitations. These system constraints could lead to ...

NEC last week gave details of a cool new storage architecture that allows companies to enable grids from industry standard computers. Called HYDRAstor, it is a scale-out architecture with resilience, ...

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The electric grid is a network formed of power plants, transmission lines, and consumers. In the future, the expectation is that the consumers will increase significantly their consumption of energy.

Enterprise IT professionals are hearing quite a bit these days about the arrival of service-oriented architectures (SOA) as the preferred direction of application architecture and development. The ...