The global transition to renewable energy faces a critical challenge: maintaining stable power grids as we integrate intermittent solar/wind generation and growing numbers of electric vehicles. This ...

Integrating microgrids through advanced management systems transforms isolated backup power into a dynamic, interconnected foundation for urban grid resilience and stability.

Until recently, the small village of Boaz, Wisconsin, U.S., with a population of 156, perhaps was best known as the location where a 12,000-year-old mastodon skeleton was found in 1897. Fast-forward ...

The National Association of Regulatory Utility Commissioners and the National Association of State Energy Officials have published a report titled “Clean Energy Microgrids: Considerations for State ...

Microgrids offer an ideal solution to counter the risk of weather-related power disruption by bolstering operational resilience, reducing dependence on local utilities, and lowering energy costs.

Microgrids, sometimes called distributed energy resources, are local sources of electricity operating separately from the utility grid. They typically produce electricity from renewable sources such ...

Solar panels support first-of-its-kind microgrid at Daughters of Mary campus, activated by Schneider Electric and Citizens Energy. Image: Schneider Electric. The speed at which renewables projects are ...

Expertise from Forbes Councils members, operated under license. Opinions expressed are those of the author. In 2012, microgrids gained sudden national awareness after the incredibly destructive ...

The majority of the U.S. electric grid was built in the early 20th century — designed for the one-way transfer of electricity from large fossil-fuel power plants in rural areas directly to consumers ...