Resilience is finally taking a front stage in the electric power industry. Society recognizes the need to significantly increase investments in resilience as the electric grid ages and faces extreme ...

A new report by IEA PVPS Task 18 provides a blueprint guide on how to conduct feasibility studies for off-grid and edge-of-grid power systems. The optimal system size and specifications vary depending ...

Switch to solar with a system built for you. Off-grid solar systems generate and store power wherever the sun shines, making them a great green update to your home. Today, lots of one-stop-shop ...

The current power infrastructure is in need of an update for better efficiency, reliability, and safety. Standards organizations and engineers have risen to the challenge, promising to solve many ...

Like all solar energy systems, off-grid systems use solar panels to harness the sun’s energy for residential or commercial buildings. However, unlike more common grid-tied systems, they store some of ...

Researchers have designed and demonstrated a high-efficiency bidirectional wireless power transfer system for multiple ...

Small-scale solar power, also known as rooftop or distributed solar, has grown considerably in the U.S. over the past decade. It provides electricity without emitting air pollutants or climate-warming ...

To the extent that the popular media understands the Smart Grid at all, it’s seen in terms of “smart meters” that are going to, say, let the utilities turn off consumers’ clothes dryers. Yet it really ...