Manitoba Electrification History charts arc lights, hydroelectric dams, Winnipeg utilities, transmission lines, rural electrification, and Manitoba Hydro to today's wind, solar, and EV transition ...

Puerto Rico Tesla Solar Power enables resilient microgrids using batteries, renewable energy, and energy storage to rebuild the hurricane-damaged grid, reduce fossil fuels, cut costs, and accelerate ...

Alaska Coal-Fired CHP Plant opens near Usibelli mine, supplying electricity and district heat to UAF; remote location without gas pipelines, low wind and solar potential, and high heating demand ...

Canada Electricity Supply Crunch underscores grid reliability risks, aging infrastructure, and rising demand, pushing upgrades in transmission, energy storage, smart grid technology, and renewable ...

The apparent power formula calculates the total electrical demand an AC circuit places on a power source. It is found by multiplying RMS voltage by RMS current and is used to determine equipment ...

Cernavoda Nuclear Project Withdrawal sees GDF Suez, RWE, and Iberdrola exit Romania's Cernavoda nuclear power plant expansion amid financial uncertainty, as the European Commission backs units 3 and 4 ...

Sayano-Shushenskaya accident highlights a transformer explosion at a Siberian hydropower plant, engine room flooding, an oil spill on the Yenisei River, destroyed turbines, power shortages, RusHydro ...

US Power Grid Blackouts highlight aging infrastructure, rising outages, and declining reliability per DOE and NERC data, with weather-driven failures, cyberattack risk, and underinvestment stressing ...

Lake Erie Connector Investment advances a 1,000 MW HVDC transmission link connecting Ontario to the PJM Interconnection, enhancing grid reliability, clean power trade, and GHG reductions through a ...

Powerex trader exodus to Morgan Stanley spotlights energy trading shifts in western power markets, as top electricity and natural gas dealers depart BC Hydro affiliate Powerex, fueling a new Vancouver ...

In this issue, we take a focused look at how intelligent substations and transformers are becoming the data backbone of the modern grid. As utilities digitize protection and monitoring functions, ...