A team of researchers at the Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory has developed more robust circuit breakers that are compatible with direct current (DC), paving the way for lower ...

Facing volatile grids, industrial facilities are investing in storage, predictive maintenance, and load shifting to protect ...

The current power infrastructure is in need of an update for better efficiency, reliability, and safety. Standards organizations and engineers have risen to the challenge, promising to solve many ...

After experiencing a partial nuclear meltdown in 1979, the Three Mile Island facility near Harrisburg, Pennsylvania became associated with nuclear disaster. The incident was so notorious that it ...

Tech companies are building data centers with their own private power plants, a risky bet that will increase carbon emissions and other pollution.

ECL launched two years ago with the promise of hydrogen powered modular data centers that used no local water or power and were completely off the grid. With FlexGrid, the company is expanding its ...

AI infrastructure is scaling fast, and its need for energy has moved firmly into the spotlight. News cycles are increasingly dominated by debates about AI’s impact on power systems, consumer energy ...

In February 2021, Texas came within four minutes and 37 seconds of a complete statewide blackout. A winter storm knocked out 40 percent of the state’s grid capacity in just four hours, leaving ...

Anyone who has spent any amount of time in or near people who are really interested in energy policies will have heard ...