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Industrial Physicist
Eric J. Lerner |
What's wrong with the electric grid? Experts widely agree that failures of the power-transmission system are a nearly unavoidable product of a collision between the physics of the system and the economic rules that now regulate it.   |
IEEE Spectrum
October 2012
Joshua J. Romero |
Blackouts Illuminate India's Power Problems Weak links in the grid prove difficult to fix |
Wired
March 23, 2009
Brendan I. Koerner |
Power to the People: 7 Ways to Fix the Grid, Now The grid took more than a century to grow into the unwieldy beast it is now. Given the urgency of climate change, energy independence, and economic demands, we have only a fraction of that time to fix it. |
IEEE Spectrum
December 2010
Seth Blumsack |
How the Free Market Rocked the Grid It led to higher rates and rolling blackouts, but it also opened the door to greener forms of electricity generation |
IEEE Spectrum
January 2011
Peter Fairley |
Flexible AC Transmission: The FACTS Machine Flexible power electronics will make the smart grid smart |
IndustryWeek
June 20, 2012 |
Can the U.S. Revitalize its Infrastructure? Pushing the limits of an aging infrastructure, U.S. manufacturers face a future of increasing costs and instability unless new technologies and new investments can rejuvenate the system. |
Wired
July 2001
Steve Silberman |
The Energy Web The best minds in electricity R&D have a plan: Every node in the power network of the future will be awake, responsive, adaptive, price-smart, eco-sensitive, real-time, flexible, humming -- and interconnected with everything else... |
Real Estate Portfolio
Mar/Apr 2004
Matthew Bechard |
Energy Secretary Spencer Abraham on the 2003 Blackout and Energy Efficiency Abraham spoke with Portfolio regarding the National Energy Policy, the 2003 blackout, and how REITs can improve their energy efficiency. |
Home Toys
February 2006
Michael Kintner-Meyer |
Grid Friendly Appliances What can home appliances do to help ensure the reliability of the electricity grid? A lot -- if they employ smart control technology. |
The Motley Fool
January 22, 2010
Toby Shute |
The Smart Grid Means More Than Meters Reliability is also key to improving our electric infrastructure. |
IEEE Spectrum
May 2006
Karl Stahlkopf |
Taking Wind Mainstream Given wind's intermittency, can the power grid handle much larger amounts of variable generation? |
HBS Working Knowledge
March 8, 2012
Dina Gerdeman |
Unplugged: What Happened to the Smart Grid? Replacing the antiquated electrical system in the United States with a super-efficient smart grid always seemed a surefire opportunity for entrepreneurs. So what went wrong? |
IEEE Spectrum
June 2007
Harry Goldstein |
How to Blackout-Proof a City Mumbai's economic miracle threatens to overwhelm the power grid. |
Wall Street & Technology
April 28, 2007
Penny Crosman |
Don't Panic, but the Grid's Going Down There's no question that New York's energy grid is struggling to keep up with growing demand. Wall Street firms need to realize that blackouts and brownouts are likely this summer and will become more frequent in the future. Here's why. |
IndustryWeek
March 1, 2006
Jill Jusko |
Energy: New Plants, Old Problems Hundreds of new power plants are in the works in the United States, but they won't make energy cheaper or more reliable for manufacturers or consumers. |
IEEE Spectrum
January 2011
S. Massoud Amin |
U.S. Electrical Grid Gets Less Reliable Since 1995, outages have steadily increased as R&D steadily declined |
Popular Mechanics
March 25, 2009
Erik Sofge |
Forget the Smart Grid, We Need Smart Spending (On the Grid) Some of the stimulus bill is slated for projects to fix our energy infrastructure. But before we start spending, the terminology needs refining. Here is how a buzzword is confusing the plan to upgrade the electrical grid. |
BusinessWeek
January 12, 2004 |
Power: Keep The Candles Handy -- And Light A Few For the power sector, 2003 will be remembered as the year the lights went out. To avoid another blackout like the one that darkened big chunks of Canada and the U.S. in August, the industry will work harder this year. |
Finance & Development
September 1, 2001
John E. Besant-Jones & Bernard Tenenbaum |
Lessons from California's Power Crisis Clearly, what happened in California was not what was planned. It is not surprising that policymakers around the world are now asking questions... |
Industrial Physicist
Feb/Mar 2004 |
Letters Micro vs. Macro... Neutron generators... Electric grid... etc. |
National Defense
October 2013
Yasmin Tadjdeh |
Fears of Devastating Cyber-Attacks on Electric Grid, Critical Infrastructure Grow Department of Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano warned that the United States faces "a major cyber-event that will have a serious effect on our lives, our economy and the everyday functioning of our society." |
IEEE Spectrum
September 2006
Charles Perrow |
Shrink The Targets Human nature can better withstand a dozen small disasters than a single great one, even if the casualty total is the same. Protecting America's big targets is next to impossible; we should instead downsize them to make them less consequential and easier to protect. |
CIO
May 1, 2001
Susannah Patton |
Think Outside the Grid California's power crisis is a wake-up call. Now, to keep their websites from crashing and their IT systems from freezing, CIOs need to focus on risk planning... |
IndustryWeek
May 1, 2006
Jill Jusko |
Energy Without A Net The August 2003 blackout showed manufacturers the havoc a widespread power failure can wreak, yet nearly three years later many would face the same consequences were the lights to go out again. |
Bank Technology News
October 2008
Dan Sharplin |
Keep the Grid Going and Reap Rewards Instead of simply putting up with higher electric bills and periodic service disruptions, bank chains have a unique opportunity to become part of the energy solution-and to profit from it at the same time. |
IEEE Spectrum
May 2011
Peter Fairley |
Why Japan's Fragmented Grid Can't Cope Bridging Japan's east-west frequency divide to stoke power flows will require real engineering hustle. |
Popular Mechanics
May 2008
Erik Sofge |
Rebuilding America Special Report: How to Fix U.S. Infrastructure American infrastructure is in trouble, from collapsed bridges to leaking dams. Here are some fresh ideas, smart engineering and new technology that can be used to fix it. |
IEEE Spectrum
January 2006
William Sweet |
Winner: Adrenaline for the Grid A novel superconducting device provides essential voltage support. |
Reason
June 2001
Michael W. Lynch & Adrian Moore |
Power Tripped Faulty re-regulation turns out the lights in the Golden State... |
IEEE Spectrum
July 2011
Peter Fairley |
Flywheels Keep the Grid in Tune Spinning masses face off against big batteries in the half-billion-dollar market for grid stability |
IEEE Spectrum
May 2013
Peter Fairley |
Germany Takes the Lead in HVDC New developments in high-voltage DC electronics could herald an epic shift in energy delivery |
IEEE Spectrum
November 2008
Peter Fairley |
Closing the Circuit Engineers working in the teeming cities and lonely deserts of North Africa are creating the last links in a power grid that will ring the Mediterranean Sea |
IndustryWeek
November 1, 2003
John Teresko |
Power Plays Rethink energy management with distributed power generation, higher-efficiency equipment and business-continuity planning. |
IEEE Spectrum
September 2007
William Sweet |
Portrait of a Mature Grid Operator With electricity deregulation, independent authorities have been established to manage regional power systems. But not all are created equal. |
National Defense
August 2011
Zhen Zhang |
Cohesive Cybersecurity Policy Needed For Electric Grid Securing the electric grid is one of the key components of preventing terrorist attacks in the United States and increasing the country's resilience and recovery from such events. |
Reason
June 2009
Lynne Kiesling |
Electric Intelligence Establishing a smart grid requires regulatory reform, not subsidies. |
IEEE Spectrum
May 2013
Jean Kumagai |
The Smartest, Greenest Grid What the little Danish island of Bornholm is showing the world about the future of energy |
National Defense
April 2014
Stew Magnuson |
Report Ponders What Follows a Cyber Attack on Electric Grid Experts are convinced that a cyber attack on a U.S. electric grid that could cut off power to millions is a near certainty. |
IEEE Spectrum
October 2006
Phillip F. Schewe |
Electric Idyll Idaho's major utility has resisted deregulation and is doing just fine. Idaho Power prides itself on the care it takes maintaining the basic physical elements of its grid, starting with the distribution transformers seen being tested and repaired. |
IndustryWeek
April 20, 2011 |
Powering Up: The Smart Grid's Next Steps While meters have received the bulk of the attention so far, the supply side is where the smart grid will be built. |
CIO
June 1, 2004 |
P.S. on the Blackout: Mind Your IT A power company in northern Ohio called FirstEnergy missed signs that there were potential problems in its portion of North America's electrical grid. A report that followed the incident made a note for power companies to mind their network infrastructures. |
IEEE Spectrum
September 2006
Ted G. Lewis |
Netwar! Recent technology infrastructure failures each posed a problem of concern for homeland security: how to guard critical infrastructure that is so vast and complex that we cannot afford to protect every part or anticipate the ultimate effects of a disruption? |
IEEE Spectrum
January 2006
William Sweet |
Get-Rich-Quick Scheme ConsumerPowerline, a four-year-old New York company, is showing its clients how to make money, and quite a lot of it, by not using electricity. |
CIO
January 4, 2012
Mark Rowh |
Smart Grid Security Inadequate, Threats Abound As the Stuxnet attack shows, malicious hackers "clearly have the upper hand" over power grid systems, a new study says. A lack of strict standards and a hodgepodge of products have created today's chaotic state of utility cybersecurity. |
IEEE Spectrum
November 2007
Peter Fairley |
Power Transmission Without the Power Electronics GE's variable-frequency transformers transfer power between out-of-sync grids without the problems of semiconductor power electronics |
IEEE Spectrum
February 2012
John Kappenman |
A Perfect Storm of Planetary Proportions The approach of the solar maximum is an urgent reminder that power grids everywhere are more vulnerable than ever to geomagnetic effects |
National Defense
September 2012
Stew Magnuson |
Feds Fear Coordinated Physical, Cyber-Attacks on Electrical Grids Electrical grids in the United States are vulnerable to both cyber-attacks and space weather, federal officials have said. |
CIO
July 15, 2001
Jenna Kinghorn |
The Power to Choose New technologies keep the electricity flowing for IT... |
IEEE Spectrum
January 2013
John Boyd |
Japan's Digital Grid Scheme Japanese consortium aims to transform the country's centralized grid into islands of interconnected cells |
National Defense
February 2012
Dan Parsons |
Catastrophic Solar Flare Scenario Touches Off Stormy Debate Energy from solar flares can harm electrical grids on Earth, but a new study says the sun probably won't plunge the United States into the Dark Ages, as some theorists have said. |
