Addressing the urgent need for energy resilience, this piece explores how microgrids can mitigate the effects of natural ...

What is a microgrid and how does it work? New portable units allow you to “island” home energy for off-the-grid security. No, we’re not talking about miniature cooking pans for making tiny pancakes!

Springfield and Aspen have almost nothing in common other than being county seats in Colorado. They also happen to be in electrical cul-de-sacs, at the end of transmission lines. Microgrids may help ...

Wildfires have become increasingly frequent due to climate change, with record occurrences in areas not historically prone to them. In California, wildfires and regional power shutoffs have cost ...

March 3, 2003 — In 1996, a sagging power line in Oregon brushed against a tree, and within minutes 12 million customers in eight states lost power. Such is the vulnerability of today’s power grid. To ...

Utilities are under growing pressure to deliver increasing power to more places. Severe weather, electric vehicles, scorching heat, aging infrastructure, and an influx of new data centers and ...

As businesses work to bring their greenhouse gas emissions to zero, having more control of how, where and when energy is produced is increasingly appealing. Step forward microgrids — decentralized ...

Microgrids can offer cleaner and more reliable electricity, but companies that try to develop such projects have run into a discouraging array of obstacles. An August wildfire cut off electricity to ...

Twenty Years Into Fracking, Pennsylvania Has Yet to Reckon With Its Radioactive Waste The World’s Last Flock of Wild Whooping Cranes Gets More Living Space In Murphy’s Final Weeks, NJ Climate ...

HOUSTON--(BUSINESS WIRE)--The Texas Reliability Coalition (TRC) is launching an educational outreach initiative today to engage the public and elected officials about the Utility-Scale Microgrid (USM) ...

An August wildfire cut off electricity to Del Norte County, California. Residents might have been in the dark for weeks—except for the use of a makeshift microgrid that generated power locally. The ...