After building a fiber optic network throughout its service territory, in 2010 the city-owned electric utility in Chattanooga, Tennessee, became the first U.S. company to offer fiber-to-the-home ...

With the U.S. government funneling billions of dollars into new grid infrastructure, and private companies rolling out new systems to mitigate outages and developing artificial intelligence that can ...

Phil Goldstein is a former web editor of the CDW family of tech magazines and a veteran technology journalist. He lives in Washington, D.C., with his wife and their animals: a dog named Brenna and two ...

Electric utilities are turning to advanced technologies to help meet the demand for DER and grid resiliency. ComEd engineers and executives leverage the lab to demonstrate and study interoperability ...

Melanie Hart details why the United States should take note of China’s ambitions and step up our own smart grid efforts. A worker walks past a transformer station at Wujing Thermal Power Plant of ...

The smart grid offers great promise to transform the electric system, enabling two-way communication between providers and consumers over the network, and allowing new services that can save ...

At a very young age, Massoud Amin, director of the Technological Leadership Institute, realized that electricity was vital to modern society. Growing up and traveling in Iran in the 1960s, he saw how ...

One of the expectations that industries have with the fast-paced development and application of smart grids and Internet of Things (IoT) technologies is how these will help in improving electrical ...

It’s rather evident that collectively, the energy industry must make some optimizations to the conventional power grid. There are many questions and concerns—both ethical and security-focused—about ...