Grid

Guidehouse Insights report shows North America is the leading microgrid market, claiming 36.3% of global capacity.   A new report from Guidehouse Insights examines data on known grid-tied and remote microgrid projects in the proposal, planning, and deployed stages across…

A new energy economy will require long-term interaction between energy companies and communities hosting next-generation energy infrastructure.   Living in a city, it is easy to forget that one in five Americans — about 60 million people —…

The Virginia Clean Economy Act will foster economic development across Virginia, reduce carbon emissions.   The Virginia Senate recently passed the Virginia Clean Economy Act, after the House of Delegates’ approval of the bill. Governor Ralph Northam is…

Resource planning has changed a lot over the last five years, with the increase in intermittent renewables and distributed energy sources. In 2018, the piece Are DER Heavy Utilities Being Held Captive by Technology Limitations?, posited that analytical…

Ever since the 2003 blackout, vegetation management has improved, largely due to FERC regulation. Still, improvement has been mostly in transmission. The “last mile” of distribution has not achieved maturity. The good news is that analytics infrastructure -…

How Duke Energy is gaining insight from self-organizing maps, a form of deep learning. Duke Energy has a reputation for deploying analytics to solve business problems. The Data Science role at Duke was defined in 2014, with the…