During my 30 years in the power industry, including as a state public service commissioner, five years as a FERC commissioner, president of NARUC, and chair of PG&E’s board, I’ve recognized the value ...

The current power infrastructure is in need of an update for better efficiency, reliability, and safety. Standards organizations and engineers have risen to the challenge, promising to solve many ...

The term “smart grid” means many things to many people, but there is one characteristic that people agree on: the focus of technology developments that transform how we will regard future power ...

Smart meters have gained widespread adoption. According to the latest figures from Berg Insight, the number of smart meters in North America reached almost 146 million at the end of 2023 with that ...

Faced with soaring demand and limited visibility into upstream grid assets, Karachi-based K-Electric engineered an in-house special protection system that delivers more than 600 MW of secure power ...

Retrofitting existing electrical grids with IEC 61850 smart grid technology is a cost-effective and practical alternative to implementing a smart power grid without rebuilding the entire network from ...

In powerline communications (PLC), OFDM makes better use of bandwidth than FSK. Fast, reliable, and secure communications are critical for enabling the "energy Internet," an interconnected network of ...