Hydro One Inc. recently announced it is moving forward with plans to build a new Ontario grid control center in Orillia. This new, state-of-the-art facility is expected to serve as one of the ...

National Grid is building a new control center, the Electricity Transmission Control Center (ETCC), to support network resilience, uphold National Grid Electricity Transmission’s (NGET) reliability ...

The Department of Energy (DOE) has initiated a new “enabling” pathway to achieve and sustain a dramatic transformation of the nation’s evolving grid—through its power electronics fabric, with the ...

Imagine this: you’ve just gotten home from work. You worked right through lunch, as you often do, and now you just want to throw your pasta on the stove and relax in your air-conditioned home while ...

When an early warning system designed to alert operators across Europe about disturbances on the grid was rolled out a decade ago, the predominant color showing on the on-screen maps was green. Safe ...

Power grids carry the seeds of their own destruction: massive flows of electricity that can race out of control in just seconds, threatening to melt the very lines that carry them. Built in the days ...

A cyberattack on the electricity grid happened in Ukraine – could it happen here too? Valentyn Ogirenko/Reuters The grid has been vulnerable physically for decades. Today, we are just beginning to ...