Utilities optimizing their distribution systems today often are addressing challenges in addition to Volt/VAR optimization. VVO on distribution systems with a growing variety of DER and load sources ...

"The power grid is the most complex and largest engineering system on Earth. We can control the increasingly complex power grid with basic science." At the 206th KAST Roundtable Discussion held at the ...

Public works crews remove a large tree from power lines after Hurricane Sandy passed through the area in Needham, Mass. The post-Sandy power outages exposed weaknesses in the nation's aging electric ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. David Blackmon is a Texas-based public policy analyst/consultant. This article is more than 5 years old. An electrical offshore ...

The electric grid was built for stability. Its architecture grew around centralized generation, predictable load patterns and unidirectional power flow. Planning horizons spanned decades, change moved ...

Complex network theory offers a rigorous framework to model and assess the resilience and vulnerability of electrical power grids by representing generating units, substations and loads as nodes, and ...

Siemens Energy (XTRA:ENR) has agreed to acquire Camlin Group to expand its grid monitoring, analytics and digitalisation capabilities. The deal is aimed at strengthening Siemens Energy's position in ...

Complex Networks Make Up U.S. Power Grid As Morning Edition looks back on the blackout of 2003, David Greene talks to Steven Weissman, the director of the Energy Program at the University of ...