High Tech Meets Low Tech That’s not my car, but that’s an actual distribution transformer in my neighborhood. I think the utility company got a good return on its investment in that transformer. (It’s probably been there for 40+ years. It doesn’t inspire confidence in the grid.) An electric vehicle (EV) and its charger are […]
Category: Electric Grid
Renewables and The Electric Grid
The Old Grid is Slowly Learning New Tricks An Overview of the Challenges of Integrating Intermittent Renewable Sources with the Power Grid In the last decade or so, engineers who design and operate electrical grids have gone from thinking grids were limited to a maximum of 10 to 20% renewable power to “how can we […]