While industry insiders debate the finer points of the smart grid in Washington this week at GridWeek, I am realizing that consumers know precious little about the overhaul that our nation's ...

Sixty-eight percent of consumers have never heard of the smart grid and 63 percent draw a blank about smart meters, according to a poll by Harris Interactive. Meanwhile, consumers think smart grids ...

The HVAC industry is perched on the next piece of cutting-edge technology - the emerging smart grid. Still early in its development, the government is working to integrate and manage a new electricity ...

On August 14, 2003, a power line in Ohio overheated, causing a widespread blackout that affected over 50 million people in the United States and Canada. Grid operators at power plants are trained to ...

Grid congestion—an "overloaded" electricity grid—results in delays to building projects and sustainable initiatives. However, ...

The world’s growing population is becoming increasingly urbanized. According to the UN, more than half of the global population lives in urban areas. For perspective, only one-third of the global ...

Accelerating the deployment of these smart devices is an important component of DTE’s five-year, $10 billion plan to build ...

High on a ridge overlooking Maalaea Bay, a small group of students from the Horizons Academy scramble out of vans into the vast open space at the top of the Kaheawa wind farm. They gape for a moment ...

Big data presentations frequently get around to mentioning smart electricity meters as an up and coming use. No wonder, when you hear a pilot project in Washington plans to take electric data feeds ...

ALBANY — National Grid is in the process of installing so-called smart meters at the homes of its gas and electric customers.

DTE will add more than 675 devices to its electric grid by the end of 2025, more than doubling the number of devices already on the system since the automation program started in 2023. DTE’s ...

Since performing research for my book, Climate Capitalism (written with Hunter Lovins) a few years ago, I have become increasingly convinced that the smart grid has the potential to be one of the ...