China is no longer using American software to run its power grid. The Southern Regional Electricity Market (SREM) – the world’s largest unified power market – has switched fully to Tianquan, a solver ...

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An early grid battery was installed in the Atacama Desert in Chile 15 years ago. Now, as prices have tumbled, they are increasingly being used around the world. Andes Solar IV, one of the largest ...

Keeping up with the rising energy demands of artificial intelligence has pushed some universities to investigate outside-the-box power solutions. Artificial intelligence, particularly generative AI, ...

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At 12:33pm on April 28th, the Iberian peninsula went dark. Within seconds, a few local energy outages cascaded into a regional blackout. The loss of just 2.2 gigawatts (about two nuclear plants) ...

Renewable growth has outpaced grid and storage capacity, leading to record levels of wasted clean energy and negative electricity prices. The AI and data center boom is rapidly driving up global ...

As global power grids transition from centralized fossil-based generation to decentralized, renewable sources, system stability has become a critical challenge. The phasing out of synchronous ...

Depending on whom you’re asking, renewable energy and electric vehicles will either destroy the grid or save it. The sun doesn’t always shine and the wind doesn’t always blow, true enough, while a gas ...

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Artificial Intelligence (AI) is now a major force in the U.S. economy. The rapid expansion of data centers in the United States has emphasized the challenges facing the U.S. electricity sector, which ...

Massive data centers are pushing energy demand higher. Some people claim that AI will be a net benefit for the grid. The rising popularity of AI is driving an increase in electricity demand so ...