Electric utilities globally are being compelled to upgrade their existing distribution and transmission systems due to the rising demand for load by residential, commercial, and industrial customers.

The Department of Energy (DOE) has initiated a new “enabling” pathway to achieve and sustain a dramatic transformation of the nation’s evolving grid—through its power electronics fabric, with the ...

To maintain the stability of the national power grid frequency, secondary control—AGC (Automatic Generation Control)—has been ...

For years, the energy industry’s answer to rising demand was simple: build more. More generation, more transmission, more ...

The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) has announced $48 million in funding to support a new program focused on developing power grid technologies that improve control and protection of the domestic ...

San Francisco, CA, April 16, 2026 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Grid Rails today announced the official launch of its enterprise-grade Virtual Power Plant (VPP) platform, a comprehensive software solution ...

The proliferation of digital technologies in power distribution systems has given rise to advances on two fronts. “Digitally enabled” devices are on offer today that pack more and more functionality ...

In 2019, Ann Arbor’s City Council passed a “climate emergency” ordinance and set a target of making the town reliant on renewable energy for 100 percent of its electricity by 2030. That goal puts a ...

Power grid operators in the EU want policymakers to regulate all new power plants to help control voltage swings and avoid ...