With increasingly hot summers, energy companies are having difficulty meeting demand, and the threat of blackouts looms ever closer. Energy companies and utility commissions are going to have to ...

The dual challenges of affordability and growing load demand are putting enormous stress on utilities, communities and households. Demand response, a key part of the solution, is falling short, but ...

According to NOAA, 2024 was the hottest year on record. If that sentence gives you déjà vu, that’s only natural: the record has been broken seven times since 2014. The global upward trend in ...

In an effort to bring down electricity demand before it threatened to overtake power supply late last month during an early summer heat wave, the Texas grid operator asked businesses and residents to ...

Guessing the future is a tricky business. When one looks back at the futurologists of the 1950s, and their predictions of car transportation, one can’t help being struck by how far from reality some ...

The electric grid is under a lot of pressure these days. New data centers are escalating load growth, and record heat waves mean there is more electricity demand for air conditioning. Data centers are ...

New Mexico is caught between two competing pressures that will define its electricity system for decades. Demand for power is ...

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The rapid integration of renewable energy sources and the increasing complexity of modern power grids have accelerated the development of demand response (DR) and control strategies. These approaches ...

Australians are in love with rooftop solar to such an extent that one in three homes now has solar panels on the roof and their combined capacity eclipses that of the entire coal fleet during the ...