Smart EV charging and microgrids significantly reduce peak load issues, helping utilities and DSOs avoid costly grid upgrades ...

Daimler's Smart brand of urban runabouts has struggled mightily to find sales traction over the years, so much so that it recently departed the North American market. That may turn out to be a bit of ...

The digital revolution transforming various industries—illustrated by our articles on smart factories and smart cities—is profoundly reshaping the electricity sector. Governments, energy utilities, ...

As smart grid tech is rolled out around the world to modernize legacy assets and integrate renewable energy generation, it is also making the electricity network more prone to cyber attacks. IEC ...

The smart grid narrative has faded into the background, but it is still at the core of the ongoing process of network digitalization and automation. And GRID combines industry, energy, and technology ...

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 ...

PowerMatching City — a live smart grid project involving 25 households in the Hoogkerk district in the northern part of the Netherlands — has demonstrated that it is possible to create a smart grid ...

Last week, Austrian Power Grid AG and Energy Web Foundation announced the launch of a proof-of-concept process that will enable small-scale distributed energy resources (DERs) to participate in ...

The smart grid offers great promise to transform the electric system, enabling two-way communication between providers and consumers over the network, and allowing new services that can save ...

The term “smart grid” encompasses much more than just power delivery, though that is an important factor. At its core, the main pillar of a smart grid is a two-way connection of energy and information ...