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 ...

Legacy load forecasting models are struggling with ever-more-common, unpredictable events; power-hungry AI offers a solution.

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 ...

The digital revolution transforming various industries—illustrated by our articles on smart factories and smart cities—is profoundly reshaping the electricity sector. Governments, energy utilities, ...

The Smart Grid represents the modernization of electrical power networks by incorporating new technologies. First Trust NASDAQ® Clean Edge® Smart Grid Infrastructure Index Fund ETF has outperformed ...

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 ...

The term "smart grid" describes an electrical grid that's integrated with a computerized, two-way communication network. Older electrical grids send electrical power one direction, from a power plant ...

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 ...

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 ...

Over the past several months, alarm bells have been going off regarding potential attacks against the U.S. electrical grid. Consider these recent media headlines: The Wall Street Journal: Cyberattacks ...