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Tesla powers a whole island with solar

SolarCity, the company Tesla officially acquired on Monday, is powering nearly the entire island of Ta’u in American Samoa with solar power.

High Voltage Construction Kit

Haefely Hipotronics has launched the new high-voltage construction KIT 4.0, which integrates state-of-art technology, offering variable frequency experiments to students with safety SIL 3 certification.

France faces blackouts, price spikes as nuclear plants closed for safety

France’s heavy reliance on nuclear baseload energy is leaving it short of power, and the country faces blackouts and soaring power prices this winter.

Balance - a game for Electrical Engineers

Without electricity there is chaos. Balance is a free puzzle game about electricity and power grids.

92% of power and utilities plan to invest in Digital Grid in the next 12 months

Digital grid is becoming a primary focus area for the global power and utilities sector, with 92% of companies surveyed planning to invest in the next 12 months, according to a new EY report, Digital grid: powering the future of utilities.

Cooperation of Russia and China in terms of nuclear energy

Rosatom’s Regional Office in China was opened on 7 April in Beijing (China) within the framework of International exhibition Nuclear Industry China 2016.

Baltic power grid operators start coordinated exchange of balancing energy

The transmission system operators (TSOs) of the three Baltic states have introduced standard manually activated frequency restoration reserves (mFRR) products as of November 1 this year.

Tesla’s Solar Roof Story: So Far, So Superficial

Its new solar shingles were shown off in a fictional neighborhood, with an unconvincing narrative to match.

Industrial Internet of Things - Security Framework

The Industrial Internet Consortium (IIC) has published a draft Security Framework (173 pages).

Sharing Alaska’s Microgrid Expertise Across Borders

The Atlantic Council’s Penny Gage describes Alaska’s microgrid expertise and explains how it can be shared nationally and internationally.

Cybersecurity: what are the adequate boundaries for protection?

“Brain storm” is a collection of industry experts' opinions on actual problems. It allows specialists to look at different problems at different angles.

ABB unveils RE-ready plug-and-play microgrid

Swiss power electronics specialists ABB have launched an innovative new plug-and-play microgrid designed to augment the global embrace of renewable energy technologies.

Bye-bye batteries? MIT's new power sponge could hold key to electric cars

A new non-carbon material could lead the way to supercapacitors that challenge batteries for capacity but with far superior output. MIT researchers have developed an electrically-conductive sponge with a huge surface area that could pave the way for power storage that challenges today's batteries.