High on a ridge overlooking Maalaea Bay, a small group of students from the Horizons Academy scramble out of vans into the vast open space at the top of the Kaheawa wind farm. They gape for a moment ...

With the U.S. government funneling billions of dollars into new grid infrastructure, and private companies rolling out new systems to mitigate outages and developing artificial intelligence that can ...

is a senior science reporter covering energy and the environment with more than a decade of experience. She is also the host of Hell or High Water: When Disaster Hits Home, a podcast from Vox Media ...

With legacy load forecasting models struggling with unpredictable events that are becoming ever more common, power-hungry AI offers a solution.

The term “smart grid” encompasses much more than just power delivery, though that is an important factor. At its core, the main pillar of a smart grid is a two-way connection of energy and information ...

Boulder, Colo., is known for a lot of things, including the University of Colorado, the National Center for Atmospheric Research, and a distinctive hippie-progressive-outdoorsy vibe. And now, it’s ...

Technologists often guide a utility’s plans for grid modernization. Though that is a crucial and laudable role, it is not enough. Technologists must also build and articulate a business case for grid ...

What makes today’s power grid “intelligent” is the modernization of the technologies that both provide and support power distribution. These technologies use intelligent data analysis and ...

If you ask four people to define what a smart grid is, you will get five answers. The smart grid is not simply about implementing technology. It is really a complete business transformation for ...

Sensors are an indispensable tool to inform utility managers of the state of the electricity grid and the occurrence of ...

The Obama administration recently changed its nomenclature on a topic of much interest to readers of this publication and those in the power industry. The administration has said it prefers to talk ...