Hydro One Inc. recently announced it is moving forward with plans to build a new Ontario grid control center in Orillia. This new, state-of-the-art facility is expected to serve as one of the ...

Simply controlling where and when electric cars charge could go a long way to easing any spikes in electricity demand There's a place in Austin, Texas, where the residents have agreed to be the test ...

Electric utilities globally are being compelled to upgrade their existing distribution and transmission systems due to the rising demand for load by residential, commercial, and industrial customers.

Electricity grids are slowly getting smarter. Simultaneously, the use of distributed generation is increasing. Though smart grid advocates tout the ability of a smarter grid to enable greater ...

Power grids carry the seeds of their own destruction: massive flows of electricity that can race out of control in just seconds, threatening to melt the very lines that carry them. Built in the days ...

Hidden somewhere in the city of Regina is a building full of computers that controls power for the entire province — the SaskPower Grid Control Centre. When it was built, it was located well out of ...