The modern United States runs on an invisible machine of wires, transformers, data centers, and control rooms. If that ...

U.S. electrical utility organizations are at a critical juncture, with rising customer and regulatory demands, the increase ...

The center hosts laboratories for large-scale grid simulation and for designing technologies that can be tested with real ...

One of the nicest comments people have made about the electrical grid was … nothing. The grid works best when it fades into the background. That low-profile status has changed in recent years as fires ...

Smart Grid technology arrived with a bang more than two decades ago, but the first implementations often overpromised and underdelivered. Smart Grid 2.0, however, integrates new technologies to ...

A team of researchers at the Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory has developed more robust circuit breakers that are compatible with direct current (DC), paving the way for lower ...

Artificial intelligence has captured headlines recently for its rapidly growing energy demands, and particularly the surging ...

A historic legacy now translates to pioneering capabilities in electric grid technology at the Department of Energy’s Oak ...