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 ...

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

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, ...

Explore the urgent need for digitalisation in India's energy sector to manage increasing demand and integrate renewable ...

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: ...

Understanding the Smart Grid requires an appreciation of the interactions of multiple layers of control and communication. The best tool for understanding all the layers of complexity is the ...

The increasing frequency of climate-related disasters, including hurricanes, wildfires, and heat waves, highlights the urgency of a resilient grid. Therefore, modernizing the grid to withstand and ...

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 ...

Smart grid infrastructure is the enabler of a 21st century electric grid. Among other things, this modern grid is more resilient to natural and human- made disasters and provides for the two-way flow ...

The smart grid offers great promise to transform the electric system, enabling two-way communication between providers and consumers over the network, and allowing new services that can save ...