Decentralized capacity enters the mainstream as electricity demand strains infrastructure, forcing a change in U.S. power ...

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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 ...

Last month “Charging Ahead” looked at the technological shift taking place in many industries called technology agnosticism” often referred to as tech-agnostic. It’s a technological approach that’s ...

Minnesota will soon have its first ever virtual power plant after the state Public Utilities Commission approved Xcel Energy’s pilot project this month. The decision places Minnesota among the roughly ...

In the new agreement, Voltus will pay people who agree to participate in the virtual power plant. The plant will be part of PJM, the grid that covers much of the US East Coast. The company says it ...

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 ...

If what happened on July 29 in California is any indication of the future of the power grid, then there is reason for optimism. Let’s look at it from the perspective of Tom Weldon, who owns a house on ...

This story originally appeared in New York Focus, a nonprofit news publication investigating power in New York. Sign up for their newsletter here. Julia Calderon’s power used to go out regularly. She ...

Some lawmakers and advocates hope to harden Michigan’s electric grid and cut utility bills by adding new power plants, all without moving a single shovelful of dirt. How is that possible? The state ...