For decades, electricity regulators have treated tight control of grid frequency as a basic sign of power system security. If the frequency stayed close to the nominal value, the system was considered ...

Gov. Kathy Hochul wants your household to become part of a “virtual power plant” to help ease strain on the electric grid. The details haven’t been settled, but here’s the general idea proposed by the ...

ALBANY — Gov. Kathy Hochul wants your household to become part of a “virtual power plant” to help ease strain on the electric grid. The details haven’t been settled, but here’s the general idea ...

AI infrastructure is scaling fast, and its need for energy has moved firmly into the spotlight. News cycles are increasingly dominated by debates about AI’s impact on power systems, consumer energy ...

As a massive winter storm barrels across the U.S., power grid operators are taking extraordinary steps to keep the lights on and avoid rolling blackouts. The storm, stretching more than 2,300 miles, ...

NRG Energy (NRG) dropped 5.1% YTD despite controlling generation and 7 million retail customers as AI data center demand surges. NRG delivered 56% YoY earnings growth in Q3 with 64% ROE and acquired ...

Jan 22 (Reuters) - The U.S. power grid faces an elevated risk of disruption over the next several days as an Arctic blast and reduced gas supplies test the sturdiness of electric infrastructure ...

An early grid battery was installed in the Atacama Desert in Chile 15 years ago. Now, as prices have tumbled, they are increasingly being used around the world. Andes Solar IV, one of the largest ...

Abstract: Grid-connected inverters (GCIs) can operate in both grid-following (GFL) and grid-forming (GFM) modes. However, GFL control tends to be unstable in weak grids, whereas GFM control is prone ...

A proposed rule from the Department of Energy would expand federal control over how large electricity users connect to the grid, with the goal of accelerating the construction of data centers and the ...

Industry Insight from Reuters Events, a part of Thomson Reuters. Surging power demand from data centers and manufacturing is reshaping the funding plans of transmission operators as the outlook for ...

Researchers in the United States have created a droop control strategy for grid-forming inverters that purportedly improves power system frequency stability. By using an exponential active ...