Construction of the first major offshore wind farm in the United States is set to begin sometime in 2019, 55 km south of the mainland of Massachusetts. Vineyard Wind […]
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7 New Skills You Can Now Learn with the IEEE eLearning Library
With the New Year comes new eLearning opportunities for your team to learn critical skills in emerging technologies. At IEEE, we’re committed to providing organizational training that’s highly relevant to […]
How Secure is the Smart Grid?
Because it’s so huge and so dependent on digital communication and computerized control software, the United States electricity grid is difficult to defend. And as a growing number of Internet […]
NSF Awards $20M Grant for New Mexico Smart Grid Research
The National Science Foundation (NSF) recently announced a five-year $20 million grant for New Mexico’s SMART Grid Center. The grant was based on smart grid research happening at New Mexico […]
3 Real-Life Examples of the Positive Impact of Smart Grid Data Analysis
Legacy technology has stalled the full potential of the smart grid, making the act of processing the volume of smart grid and smart home data ridiculously expensive and technically […]
Wanted: A Stronger Power Grid that Stands Up to Natural Disasters
A full year has passed since Hurricane Maria left Puerto Rico’s 3.3 million residents without power. Just last month, the island’s power authority announced electricity had been fully restored. However, […]
5 Factors Affecting Future Electricity Demand
From 1987-1997, electricity demand in the United States jumped over 25%. In the following decade, demand increased by 18%. But since then, electricity use has been flat, stuck right around […]
Grid Modernization: Updating the Way Utilities Work
In 2016, the United States Department of Energy proposed an investment of $3.5 billion over the following decade to modernize our electric grid. Smart grid technology promises to better align energy […]
Assessing the Safety of Utility-Owned Smart Grid Equipment
One of the biggest frontiers in electrical engineering today is the development and implementation of smart grid technology. Fueled by the global demand for greener technologies and alternative fuels, environmentally-friendly […]
The Smart Grid Could Hold the Keys to Electric Vehicles
Globally, the use of Electric Vehicles (EV), a key component in the move to achieve overall sustainable urban mobility, is seeing strong growth and reaching record-breaking levels of sales. In […]