Residential applications for smart grid technologies continue to grow as electricity customers take more control of their energy usage and costs. Homeowners with rooftop solar have been selling power ...

In an age where power outages are increasingly common due to extreme weather events and infrastructural challenges, the need for reliable backup power solutions has never been more critical. The Grid ...

PG&E will turn off its temporary generators in San Francisco at 11 p.m. Sunday and switch its affected customers back to grid ...

Weather is unpredictable. Strong winds or storms can wreak havoc on power lines, resulting in outages that may last hours or ...

The utility told customers to expect a planned power outage lasting about an hour during the transition from generators back ...

Home standby generators from companies like Champion, Generac, and Kohler are pricey, but they provide immediate backup power ...

You could have an engine driving a DC generator, with circuitry converting it to AC for the grid, with just 1-2% loss, and completely eliminate these issues of phase, whether with a single generator ...

PG&E said it transferred 6,000 customers back to the grid early Monday morning after a planned power outage Sunday in San ...

Generators just have to be one of the best inventions ever — power when and where you need it. I’m not any kind of generator expert; I’m just a user and a big fan of what these machines have allowed ...

When the lights go out, it affects everyone. It's not only the inconvenience of having the TV shut off unexpectedly—a lot of heavy equipment really dislikes having the power disappear suddenly. For ...