Power outages have become increasingly common, and longer in duration, due to extreme weather and temperature events. Behind-the-meter (BTM) batteries are proving their worth, as they have become more ...

We routinely talk about the electrical power grid or the telephone grid, and it’s pretty clear what we mean—a large, decentralized network with massive interconnectivity and coordinated management. A ...

The US added 57 gigawatt-hours (GWh) of battery storage capacity to its electric grid last year – enough to supply the annual electricity needs of roughly ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A one-of-a-kind laboratory opened in the Tri-Cities on Tuesday, bringing together some of the world’s most respected researchers ...

There’s folk wisdom in just about every culture that teaches about renewable energy — things like “make hay while the sun shines”. But as an industrial culture, we want to make hay 24/7 and not be at ...

RICHLAND, Wash.—Scientists, legislators, community leaders and officials of the Department of Energy gathered today at DOE’s Pacific Northwest National Laboratory to dedicate a new 93,000-square-foot ...

Four reasons why the U.S. must deploy low-cost solar and battery storage to meet surging electricity demand and achieve national energy dominance.

The world’s largest solar-plus-storage project has made a critical achievement that confirms system readiness ...

Obviously, the penetration of renewable energy in the power system is significantly increasing. However, the renewable energy does not have rotation inertia and damping characteristics of traditional ...

A Chinese state-owned company announced that the world’s biggest solar farm had come online in Xinjiang, China, connecting a massive renewable energy installation to the national grid. The project, ...

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