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IEEE Spectrum
December 2005
Madani & Novoosel |
Getting a Grip on the Grid The findings of major electric disturbances around the world highlight the need for cross-regional grid reforms, so that the best available technology is promptly put to use, without lengthy delays arising from American legislative or regulatory processes.   |
IEEE Spectrum
June 2007
Harry Goldstein |
How to Blackout-Proof a City Mumbai's economic miracle threatens to overwhelm the power grid. |
Industrial Physicist
Eric J. Lerner |
What's wrong with the electric grid? Experts widely agree that failures of the power-transmission system are a nearly unavoidable product of a collision between the physics of the system and the economic rules that now regulate it. |
IEEE Spectrum
June 2007 |
Tata Power Company's Islanding Scheme for Mumbai The following is Tata Power Company's description of the islanding system it employs to avoid catastrophic blackouts in Mumbai when the regional grid the utility is connected to goes down. |
The Motley Fool
January 22, 2010
Tim Hanson |
The Biggest Investment Opportunity This Year Why power is the way to play India. |
Wired
March 23, 2009
Brendan I. Koerner |
Power to the People: 7 Ways to Fix the Grid, Now The grid took more than a century to grow into the unwieldy beast it is now. Given the urgency of climate change, energy independence, and economic demands, we have only a fraction of that time to fix it. |
IEEE Spectrum
January 2011
Peter Fairley |
Flexible AC Transmission: The FACTS Machine Flexible power electronics will make the smart grid smart |
BusinessWeek
May 23, 2005
Manjeet Kripalani |
Not Enough Power to the People In India, power is politics -- electrical power, that is. But while makers of electrical equipment thrive, reform lags, blackouts occur daily, and the people are up in arms. Meanwhile, foreign investment is "waiting and watching." |
Home Toys
February 2006
Michael Kintner-Meyer |
Grid Friendly Appliances What can home appliances do to help ensure the reliability of the electricity grid? A lot -- if they employ smart control technology. |
IEEE Spectrum
May 2006
Karl Stahlkopf |
Taking Wind Mainstream Given wind's intermittency, can the power grid handle much larger amounts of variable generation? |
Popular Mechanics
March 25, 2009
Erik Sofge |
Forget the Smart Grid, We Need Smart Spending (On the Grid) Some of the stimulus bill is slated for projects to fix our energy infrastructure. But before we start spending, the terminology needs refining. Here is how a buzzword is confusing the plan to upgrade the electrical grid. |
IEEE Spectrum
June 2010
Seema Singh |
Pumping Punjab Dry Cheap energy endangers India's ability to feed itself |
Wall Street & Technology
April 28, 2007
Penny Crosman |
Don't Panic, but the Grid's Going Down There's no question that New York's energy grid is struggling to keep up with growing demand. Wall Street firms need to realize that blackouts and brownouts are likely this summer and will become more frequent in the future. Here's why. |
IEEE Spectrum
August 2005
Vir Singh |
India May Resuscitate Disputed Enron Plant As India's Dabhol power plant stands idle, shortages of electricity in the area put pressure on local politicians to resolve pricing policy and other issues which prevents its operation. |
IndustryWeek
June 20, 2012 |
Can the U.S. Revitalize its Infrastructure? Pushing the limits of an aging infrastructure, U.S. manufacturers face a future of increasing costs and instability unless new technologies and new investments can rejuvenate the system. |
IEEE Spectrum
December 2010
Seth Blumsack |
How the Free Market Rocked the Grid It led to higher rates and rolling blackouts, but it also opened the door to greener forms of electricity generation |
Bank Technology News
October 2008
Dan Sharplin |
Keep the Grid Going and Reap Rewards Instead of simply putting up with higher electric bills and periodic service disruptions, bank chains have a unique opportunity to become part of the energy solution-and to profit from it at the same time. |
IEEE Spectrum
November 2008
Peter Fairley |
Closing the Circuit Engineers working in the teeming cities and lonely deserts of North Africa are creating the last links in a power grid that will ring the Mediterranean Sea |
BusinessWeek
March 30, 2011
Drake Bennett |
Japan's Rolling Blackouts Dim Prospects for Recovery Japanese manufacturers face $60 billion in lost production from power disruptions. |
The Motley Fool
December 9, 2010
Tim Hanson |
Still the Biggest Investment Opportunity in India Why India's power sector remains worthy. |
IndustryWeek
March 1, 2006
Jill Jusko |
Energy: New Plants, Old Problems Hundreds of new power plants are in the works in the United States, but they won't make energy cheaper or more reliable for manufacturers or consumers. |
BusinessWeek
June 16, 2011
MacAskill & Mehrotra |
Can India's Power Thieves Be Stopped? India is turning to the private sector to do something about the theft of electricity, which reduces economic output by 1.2 percent per year. |
IEEE Spectrum
September 2007
William Sweet |
Portrait of a Mature Grid Operator With electricity deregulation, independent authorities have been established to manage regional power systems. But not all are created equal. |
HBS Working Knowledge
March 8, 2012
Dina Gerdeman |
Unplugged: What Happened to the Smart Grid? Replacing the antiquated electrical system in the United States with a super-efficient smart grid always seemed a surefire opportunity for entrepreneurs. So what went wrong? |
CIO
May 1, 2001
Susannah Patton |
Think Outside the Grid California's power crisis is a wake-up call. Now, to keep their websites from crashing and their IT systems from freezing, CIOs need to focus on risk planning... |
IEEE Spectrum
May 2013
Peter Fairley |
Germany Takes the Lead in HVDC New developments in high-voltage DC electronics could herald an epic shift in energy delivery |
The Motley Fool
October 8, 2007
Jack Uldrich |
American Electric Power Gets Smart The company will work with General Electric to develop and install "smart meters" to help better manage the transmission of electricity, and give customers more direct control over how much they use, thus saving them money. |
IEEE Spectrum
January 2006
William Sweet |
Get-Rich-Quick Scheme ConsumerPowerline, a four-year-old New York company, is showing its clients how to make money, and quite a lot of it, by not using electricity. |
BusinessWeek
October 6, 2003
Manjeet Kripalani |
India: Getting Power to the People As it lets private outfits compete with state utilities, will foreign players return? |
IEEE Spectrum
May 2013
Jean Kumagai |
The Smartest, Greenest Grid What the little Danish island of Bornholm is showing the world about the future of energy |
Real Estate Portfolio
Mar/Apr 2004
Matthew Bechard |
Energy Secretary Spencer Abraham on the 2003 Blackout and Energy Efficiency Abraham spoke with Portfolio regarding the National Energy Policy, the 2003 blackout, and how REITs can improve their energy efficiency. |
IEEE Spectrum
November 2007
Peter Fairley |
Power Transmission Without the Power Electronics GE's variable-frequency transformers transfer power between out-of-sync grids without the problems of semiconductor power electronics |
Wired
July 2001
Steve Silberman |
The Energy Web The best minds in electricity R&D have a plan: Every node in the power network of the future will be awake, responsive, adaptive, price-smart, eco-sensitive, real-time, flexible, humming -- and interconnected with everything else... |
Industrial Physicist
Feb/Mar 2004 |
Letters Micro vs. Macro... Neutron generators... Electric grid... etc. |
IndustryWeek
May 1, 2006
Jill Jusko |
Energy Without A Net The August 2003 blackout showed manufacturers the havoc a widespread power failure can wreak, yet nearly three years later many would face the same consequences were the lights to go out again. |
Finance & Development
June 1, 2006
Raymond Lim |
Creating a Globally Connected Asian Community As Asia connects to the world, there is every reason to hope that the same principle and structure of a community based on complementary growth and positive competition, held together by overlapping political and economic relationships, can serve as a model for the rest of the world. |
The Motley Fool
July 25, 2011
Travis Hoium |
Heat Wave Highlights Our Aging Grid When the temperature rises, we can see exactly where there's money to be made investing in the power grid. |
BusinessWeek
October 26, 2009
John Carey |
Wiring America Up to Green Power Should the U.S. subsidize vast high-voltage lines to transport wind and solar electricity to the big cities? |
Popular Mechanics
October 15, 2009
Jennifer Bogo |
Lone Star Energy: Why Texas Will Resist the Call for a Unified Grid A recent proposal to link the eastern, western and Texas grids together to create a national, energy-friendly supergrid has sparked the interest of utilities and energy insiders, but Texas doesn't want to participate. |
IEEE Spectrum
March 2012
Jean Kumagai |
Virtual Power Plants, Real Power Five kilowatts here, a hundred kilowatts there -- with a smart grid, it all adds up |
Entrepreneur
March 2007
Laurel Delaney |
Currying Favor Here's how to win over India's consumers. |
TIME Asia
May 23, 2011
Jyoti Thottam |
A New Crop Of Consumers If India can double growth in the farm sector to 4%, it could add as much as 2 percentage points to GDP growth and finally close the gap with China. |
The Motley Fool
November 25, 2009
Nathan Parmelee |
Will India Run Dry? Arranging the funding and development India needs to fix its water problems will be difficult. |
IndustryWeek
June 20, 2012 |
Diamond Wipes International Leads the Way for Distributed Generation Churning out twice the energy it consumes, the company aims to ease the strain on the state's aging electric grid. |
BusinessWeek
May 31, 2004 |
Spreading India's Uneven Wealth To U.N. economist Santosh Mehrotra, the biggest challenge for the new ruling party will be lifting 650 million Indians living in poverty. |
National Defense
April 2014
Stew Magnuson |
Report Ponders What Follows a Cyber Attack on Electric Grid Experts are convinced that a cyber attack on a U.S. electric grid that could cut off power to millions is a near certainty. |
The Motley Fool
June 19, 2009
Rich Duprey |
Are We Smart Enough for the Smart Grid? Where solar, ethanol, or similar alt-energy platforms require substantial investments, the Smart Grid allows start-ups to develop tools and devices to collect and organize the data on consumption to become the 10-baggers of the next decade. Here's how to profit from this next big thing. |
IndustryWeek
April 20, 2011 |
Powering Up: The Smart Grid's Next Steps While meters have received the bulk of the attention so far, the supply side is where the smart grid will be built. |
The Motley Fool
August 31, 2009
Rich Duprey |
Utility to Drive Smart Grid Advances Drive a car with one foot on the gas and the other on the brake, and you'll get some idea of how we're driving our energy sector today. |
InternetNews
December 6, 2005
Colin C. Haley |
Microsoft Plans 30 New R&D Centers Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates kicked off a four-day India trip by outlining a plan to build 30 new innovation centers around the world, including one in the tech-heavy Indian city of Bangalore. |
