How the Pacific Northwest power grid works, why it’s under growing strain, and what utilities are doing to keep electricity ...

People in the power industry understand inertia and its importance to grid stability. As large thermal power plants and other inertia-providing units are replaced with renewable resources that provide ...

Over the past several weeks, I’ve been conducting a large-scale bibliometric study on publicly available Chinese academic literature related to hacking and crashing Western power grids. In this ...

Johanna Mathieu works for the University of Michigan. She has received funding from the National Science Foundation, Department of Energy, ARPA-E, and the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation. She is affiliated ...

As summer arrives, people are turning on air conditioners in most of the U.S. But if you’re like me, you always feel a little guilty about that. Past generations managed without air conditioning – do ...

Over the past decades power grids have undergone a transformation towards smaller and more intermittent generators – primarily in the form of wind and solar generators – as well as smaller ...

Hey everyone, welcome back to the blog! It’s that time again where we look at what’s new and exciting in the world of power ...

The modern United States runs on an invisible machine of wires, transformers, data centers, and control rooms. If that machine failed all at once, life would not simply get less convenient, it would ...