Hydro One Inc. recently announced it is moving forward with plans to build a new Ontario grid control center in Orillia. This new, state-of-the-art facility is expected to serve as one of the ...

The Department of Energy (DOE) has initiated a new “enabling” pathway to achieve and sustain a dramatic transformation of the nation’s evolving grid—through its power electronics fabric, with the ...

Power grids carry the seeds of their own destruction: massive flows of electricity that can race out of control in just seconds, threatening to melt the very lines that carry them. Built in the days ...

Hidden somewhere in the city of Regina is a building full of computers that controls power for the entire province — the SaskPower Grid Control Centre. When it was built, it was located well out of ...

When an early warning system designed to alert operators across Europe about disturbances on the grid was rolled out a decade ago, the predominant color showing on the on-screen maps was green. Safe ...

A cyberattack on the electricity grid happened in Ukraine – could it happen here too? Valentyn Ogirenko/Reuters The grid has been vulnerable physically for decades. Today, we are just beginning to ...