Over the last decade, smart grid innovators have recognized the importance of an intelligent grid architecture while, over the same period, the electric power industry has been experiencing dramatic ...

The government’s initiative to replace conventional meters with smart metering technology is transforming India's electricity ...

The complexity of the smart grid introduces a cybersecurity challenge that isn't easy to overcome. The smart grid is unlike other critical information infrastructures in that millions of nodes located ...

The technology was installed at the utility's power distribution control center, where operators work around the clock to ...

Phil Goldstein is a former web editor of the CDW family of tech magazines and a veteran technology journalist. He lives in Washington, D.C., with his wife and their animals: a dog named Brenna and two ...

Do you feel a bit lost when people refer to certain environmental sustainability topics and aren't sure where to start when it comes to learning more? Sustainability 101 is a blog series that you can ...

One of the great achievements of the 20th century was the creation and implementation of the U. S. electric grid. The deployment was so successful, for the latter decades most users did not think ...

Cities have turned earth into a kind of planetary nightlight. We can’t peer down from the moon to see what it looked like before the Industrial Revolution, but it’s safe to say it was, well, dark.

The term "smart grid" describes an electrical grid that's integrated with a computerized, two-way communication network. Older electrical grids send electrical power one direction, from a power plant ...