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 ...

The term “smart grid” encompasses much more than just power delivery, though that is an important factor. At its core, the main pillar of a smart grid is a two-way connection of energy and information ...

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 power industry is in the midst of a shake-up, a revolution in how electricity is generated and distributed. Smart grid technology is changing the way utilities and customers interact, and ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Dr. M.F. Lightstone presents a smart-grid approach for cold climate heat pumps aimed at reducing greenhouse gas emissions ...