Browsing: smart grid

As America’s power grid strains under the dual challenge of integrating intermittent renewables and serving surging demand from data centers, operators are confronting a volatile new reality. The system’s increasing complexity is testing both technical resilience and market design, with implications rippling across the energy storage sector.

As global electricity systems grow increasingly dependent on renewable energy, precision in managing energy storage assets has become a decisive factor in grid stability and project profitability. Wärtsilä’s new GEMS Pulse platform directly addresses this operational challenge by transforming raw battery data into actionable intelligence—aiming to unlock the full financial and technical potential of energy storage systems.

Despite record renewable capacity additions of 582 GW in 2024, the world must nearly double its annual deployment rate to 1,122 GW—a 93% increase—to meet the COP28 target of tripling renewable capacity to 11.2 TW by 2030.

By 2030, data centres are projected to consume 6% of Australia’s grid-supplied electricity — a share larger than that of the entire healthcare and social assistance sector.

Global renewable energy capacity is projected to expand by 4,600 GW by 2030, roughly equivalent to the combined installed capacity of China, the European Union, and Japan, according to the IEA’s Renewables 2025 report.

A unanimous vote by the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) has set in motion a comprehensive update of reliability standards for the U.S. bulk power system, aimed at addressing evolving cybersecurity threats, supply chain risks, and the resilience of electric infrastructure in extreme cold.

Spain is preparing to inject unprecedented resources into its power network as surging demand from hydrogen, renewables, and data infrastructure strains the country’s existing grid.

For much of the twentieth century, energy systems operated under vertically integrated utilities that planned, dispatched, and balanced power and…

Artificial intelligence is being framed less as a technological revolution and more as a national survival project. Yet even as the White House describes AI as a “new Manhattan Project,” lawmakers are still receiving primers on basic concepts.

Britain’s grid currently cannot sustain clean energy operation for even one hour despite ambitious plans to achieve 95% renewable power…