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Connected infrastructure offers a holistic approach to creating a smarter, greener, and more livable world. More people are moving to urban areas than ever before, even as the impacts of climate change are

Previous winners 2024: Arizona Public Service’s (APS’s) Virtual Power Plant, Arizona 2023: BlockEnergy Microgrid at Southshore Bay Near Tampa, Florida 2022: Martha’s Vineyard Transit Authority Solar-Plus-Storage Microgrid Powering Electric Bus Fleet, Edgartown, Massachusetts 2021: Enel X Virtual Power Plant Program, California 2020: Solar Schools Project, Puerto Rico 2019: Butler Farms Microgrid, Lillington, North Carolina 2018: Gordon Bubolz […]

Previous winners 2024: Flint Hills Resources’ Pine Bend Refinery, Rosemount, Minnesota 2023: Lineage Logistics Cold Storage Facility, Colton, California 2022: The City of White Plains, New York, 6.8-MW Community Solar and 1.7-MW/8-MWh Energy Storage Portfolio 2021: Love’s Travel Stops Solar and Electric Vehicle Charging Installations at Various Sites Across the U.S. 2020: Delta Electronics (Americas) […]

Previous winners 2024: Distribution Grid Automation System, Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam 2023: Tampa Electric Co. Distributed Intelligence Project, Tampa, Florida 2022: PPL Electric Utilities’ Grid Modernization Project, Allentown, Pennsylvania 2021: Wärtsilä and Pivot Power Projects Combining Battery Storage and Power Infrastructure for Electric Vehicle Charging Across the UK 2020: Alabama Power’s Smart Neighborhood, Birmingham, Alabama […]

Construction of Hermes, Kairos Power’s 35-MWth iterative non-power demonstration molten salt nuclear reactor, has officially kicked off in Oak Ridge, Tennessee. The effort marks another major step for the burgeoning advanced nuclear industry, which celebrated the groundbreaking of TerraPower’s Kemmerer 1, a pioneering sodium-cooled fast reactor demonstration, in June. Site work and excavation for the Hermes […]

Updated data from the China Nuclear Energy Association (CNEA) shows the country has 55 nuclear reactors in operation, ranking third globally behind the U.S. and France. The CNEA said China at present has a world-leading 26 nuclear power units under construction, including Unit 5 of the Ningde Nuclear Power Plant in Fujian Province, where the […]

This month, Virginia Gov. Glenn Youngkin and the Commonwealth’s largest utility, Dominion Energy, announced a request for proposal (RFP) for the development and construction of an advanced nuclear small modular reactor (SMR), and the governor signed Senate Bill 454 designed to facilitate the research, design, construction, and deployment of what will be America’s first commercial […]

The electric power industry is facing numerous challenges, such as the growing demand for power, difficulties integrating renewable energy, and the need to build a sustainable future. These pressures are driving the need for innovative solutions and technologies to improve grid stability. IDS is built to address the issues. The electric power distribution network can […]

Japan’s largest utility said it will start the first of three units at a new natural gas-fired power plant near Tokyo in an effort to provide more electricity during the peak summer demand season. JERA on July 26 said the 780-MW Unit 1 at the Goi site in Chiba will enter service August 1. The […]

After Hurricane Beryl laid a path of destruction through the greater Houston area, the storm’s impact on the local power grid is having an outsized effect on the ongoing debate about the future of Texas’ energy and electrical infrastructure. The lessons we take from this incident, which left 2.5 million people without power at the height […]