The U.S. power grid is under strain. Aging infrastructure, rising demand and extreme weather are testing reliability.

NRG Energy. CenterPoint Energy. The Electric Reliability Council of Texas, better known as ERCOT. Various corporations affiliated with the Texas power grid are household names in Houston. But what do ...

More than 560 million people in sub-Saharan Africa live without electricity. About 384 million live in countries classified ...

A multifaceted energy strategy is needed where infrastructure providers and utilities work together to deliver power in entirely new, flexible ways.

A virtual power plant (VPP) is a network of decentralized, small- to medium-scale power generating units, flexible power consumers, and storage systems that are aggregated and operated as a single ...

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 ...

Not all power grids in America are created equal. Some states manage to keep the lights on with remarkable consistency, while others leave residents in the dark far more often than they'd like. The ...

This is where cloud computing and grid technologies are starting to mix. We’re going to look at how these two worlds are ...