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The Washington Post |The way electricity is delivered to homes and businesses is undergoing a significant transition. In the near future, many homeowners will be able to generate and store their own electricity, and that creates a profound challenge for traditional utilities.
In which we explain what automatic feeder switching and FLISR are, and how they’re going to make your power outages shorter.
The New York Times | The drought in the West is real, here to stay, and can no longer be ignored. This week, California Governor Jerry Brown’s announced executive action outlining mandatory reductions in water use aimed at cutting consumption 25 percent from 2013 levels over the next year. Here’s a round-up of some of the best reads on this big news.
Reliable electric power is a given. Except when it’s not. How often does your power go out, and for how long? New data lets us answer that question.
Along comes an 81 quintillion ton chunk of basalt rock with the gall to – quite literally – cast a shadow on solar panels.
Answering our latest IE Question, Jordan Wirfs-Brock tells us everything we always wanted to know about ducks, bell curves, and platypuses.
The drop in the price of a residential-sized solar system suggests that it is possible that distributed solar will be as disruptive of the electrical transmission grid as the iPod was to the music industry.
Between 2000 and 2014, the number of reported power outages – including weather-related outages – rose across the entire country. Why? An aging infrastructure, combined with a growing population and more frequent extreme weather, are straining the electric grid.
