In August 2019, the Great Britain (GB) national transmission system operated by National Grid suffered a very rare event. It required activation of emergency load shedding, disconnecting supplies to ...

In the push to boost system efficiency, advanced gas turbines are reaching the limits of thermodynamics. Now, attention is being focused on the transmission and distribution system. Losses have long ...

Allison Transmission. has filed a patent for a power distribution system that efficiently supplies electrical power to various parts of a vehicle. The system includes a power distribution board and ...

In a significant push toward modernizing America’s aging grid infrastructure, the Biden administration, in partnership with 21 states, has launched the Federal-State Modern Grid Deployment Initiative.

For decades, U.S. electricity demand was steady, allowing utilities to plan gradual growth and maintain the grid with modest upgrades. That era is over. The convergence of electric vehicles (EVs), ...

Crews are still scrambling to bring back power to the 219 transmission lines knocked out by Hurricane Laura in Louisiana last week, leaving 110,000 households still without power on Sept. 4. The ...

As the nation's power demands have increased over the past few decades, the nature of the hazards posed by overhead transmission and distribution lines has become increasingly complex. And for ...