Modern power systems are rapidly evolving into highly digitized smart grids, increasing their complexity at an unprecedented ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. David Blackmon is a Texas-based public policy analyst/consultant. This article is more than 5 years old. An electrical offshore ...

Power companies and Big Tech are looking for artificial intelligence solutions to managing complex grid issues. Some 40 energy companies and the largest U.S. data center developers have formed a ...

Utilities optimizing their distribution systems today often are addressing challenges in addition to Volt/VAR optimization. VVO on distribution systems with a growing variety of DER and load sources ...

Public works crews remove a large tree from power lines after Hurricane Sandy passed through the area in Needham, Mass. The post-Sandy power outages exposed weaknesses in the nation's aging electric ...

Complex network theory offers a rigorous framework to model and assess the resilience and vulnerability of electrical power grids by representing generating units, substations and loads as nodes, and ...