Power Grid

The Energy Transition’s Next Bottleneck Is Intelligence

Powerline’s Matineh Eybpoosh explores a growing vulnerability in the global energy transition: while battery storage is scaling rapidly across power grids, the intelligence required to operate these assets efficiently is lagging behind. As battery fleets expand across markets, Matineh argues that operational intelligence and automation will become essential to the energy transition.

By Matineh Eybpoosh

The A.I. Boom Is Stress-Testing America’s Power Grid

MaC Venture Capital’s Marlon Nichols explores how the rapid growth of A.I. data centers is straining America’s power grid. As A.I. accelerates energy demand, the next wave of innovation will center on building a more adaptive, distributed and intelligent energy system.

By Marlon Nichols

2017 Will Be Remembered as the Year Electric Cars Came of Age

A wave of affordable, reliable and attractive 2017-model-year electric cars with impressive range is now hitting the market.

By Andrew Eil

Why Are Renewables Buoyant Even as Oil Sinks?

By Andrew Eil

Techies Asked to Fix NYC's Ancient Power Grid, Actual Rocket Scientists Needed

By Jack Smith IV

In Which Defense Secretary Leon Panetta Freaks Everyone Out About Cyberattacks

By Kelly Faircloth

Con Ed’s Con Job

By The Editors

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