The Electric Reliability Council of Texas, which manages the state’s main power grid, has a dashboard that allows residents ...

As coal and gas plants are taken offline to be replaced by wind and solar, grid stability and system strength can become serious challenges. This is due to the inherent inertia provided by rotating ...

Electricity is crucial to modern life. We rely on being able to plug devices in to the outlet in the wall, flipping a switch, and things working without a problem. But it is not that simple, the power ...

Milligan provided a graph showing how four of the grid services related to frequency work in sequence to restore grid frequency after network disruption. As the graph shows, “fast frequency response” ...

It hasn’t been that long since humans figured out how to create power grids that integrated multiple generators and consumers. Ever since AC won the battle of the currents, grid operators have had to ...

The power grid is always perfectly balanced -- in every millisecond, energy used by consumers is equal to the energy provided by the grid. However, the grid does have various load-buffering mechanisms ...

Many observers feel that energy storage has the potential to be one of the ‘next big things.’ A number of companies are working hard at developing and deploying storage technologies, and raising money ...