Utilities optimizing their distribution systems today often are addressing challenges in addition to Volt/VAR optimization. VVO on distribution systems with a growing variety of DER and load sources ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. David Blackmon is a Texas-based public policy analyst/consultant. This article is more than 5 years old. An electrical offshore ...

Power companies and Big Tech are looking for artificial intelligence solutions to managing complex grid issues. Some 40 energy companies and the largest U.S. data center developers have formed a ...

Complex network theory offers a rigorous framework to model and assess the resilience and vulnerability of electrical power grids by representing generating units, substations and loads as nodes, and ...

The electric grid was built for stability. Its architecture grew around centralized generation, predictable load patterns and unidirectional power flow. Planning horizons spanned decades, change moved ...