New report shows how seemingly benign weather conditions can have a big impact on British electricity production – and prices.
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Researchers are studying how quantum computers can help optimise net-zero power grid operation and expansion planning.
The amount of detailed real-time data a smart grid needs to manage the push for electrification and renewables presents challenges – but there’s an affordable solution.
Bidirectional charging is the next big stage for electric vehicles. But storing power in your car and sending it back to your house involves more than flipping a switch.
The weather-related impacts of climate change will increasingly threaten critical infrastructure in the future. Shifting electricity grids towards microgrids could help.
Joe Biden has sweeping plans for a clean energy revolution. Congress will be a big speed bump, but it can’t block everything.
In the near future, we may see electric cars supplying power to smart grids or communities with their own independent microgrids.
Political and community leaders must act now to preserve the American middle class and adapt the US economy for the 21st century.
Trump has pledged to invest big in infrastructure. An analysis shows the electric grid will need hundreds of billions of dollars over the next decade just to keep things as they are.
Britain’s future could be bright – but first the grid needs a major upgrade.
An obscure Supreme Court ruling paves the way for people and businesses to earn money with distributed energy technologies.
The Supreme Court hears a case that will decide whether homes and businesses can earn money from distributed energy technologies, including demand response and home battery systems.
A word of advice: don’t try and build your own cryptography. It’s hard and others have done it better.
As it’s done with its electric cars, Tesla will need to rely on well-heeled early technology adopters and friendly regulations to sell lots of home batteries.
Electric utilities want to quash distributed solar because they don’t want the competition, right? Perhaps, but if you rely at all on the grid, you have a stake in this fight, too.
In part 13 of our multi-disciplinary Millennium Project series, Mark Diesendorf argues that it is high time we got smart about power: how we generate it and how we deliver it. Global challenge 13: How…
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