electric grid Archives - resilience

Transformer bottleneck: Can the U.S. maintain and expand its electric grid?

Sun, 27 Jul 2025 13:43:57 +0000

California wildfires, electricity shutoffs and our troubled energy future

Sun, 13 Oct 2019 16:22:56 +0000

Better Grid Modeling

Wed, 12 Oct 2016 05:04:00 +0000

Although it’s clear enough that energy transition is necessary and reasonable, and although we know that transition is mainly happening on the grid at first, there is still much uncertainty about exactly where on the grid different strategies can be tried, how much they can accomplish, and what they’ll cost, relative to the alternatives….

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Intermittent Renewables Can’t Favorably Transform Grid Electricity

Wed, 31 Aug 2016 03:21:00 +0000

Many people are hoping for wind and solar PV to transform grid electricity in a favorable way. Is this really possible?

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Eight Pitfalls in Evaluating Green Energy Solutions

Wed, 19 Nov 2014 04:46:48 +0000

Does the recent climate accord between US and China mean that many countries will now forge ahead with renewables and other green solutions? I think that there are more pitfalls than many realize.

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Resilient and Sustainable Infrastructure for Urban Energy Systems

Wed, 22 Oct 2014 05:46:34 +0000

Extreme weather from climate change and growing urbanization are making cities more vulnerable to loss of electric power and damage to energy infrastructure.

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