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 ...

In 2017, it can sometimes seem like power grids are practically crawling with digital intruders. Over just the past four months, news has emerged that Russian hackers penetrated a nuclear power plant, ...

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 ...

The New York Independent System Operator (NYISO), one of the nation’s nine regional transmission organizations (RTOs) that operate the power grid, now has some of its staff living at two of its ...

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 ...

Hidden somewhere in the city of Regina is a building full of computers that controls power for the entire province — the SaskPower Grid Control Centre. When it was built, it was located well out of ...