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 ...

"The power grid is the most complex and largest engineering system on Earth. We can control the increasingly complex power grid with basic science." At the 206th KAST Roundtable Discussion held at the ...

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 ...

The electric grid was built for stability. Its architecture grew around centralized generation, predictable load patterns and unidirectional power flow. Planning horizons spanned decades, change moved ...

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 ...

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 ...

The electrical grid in most developed countries was built 50-100 years ago around a straightforward model: large centralized power plants generate electricity and transmit it long distances to end ...