By Peter Vaessen

Self healing grids, or grids with automatic fault detection and reconfiguring, cannot prevent big outages due to a storm like Sandy that hit the North East of the US last week (also discussed in Kevin Sullivan and Ron Chebra’s recent … READ MORE

By Frits Verheij

A number of recent articles focused on the current increase in renewable energy investments have shown that the world of energy is changing. The pace of these changes seems to be much higher than any of the key existing players … READ MORE

By Ron Chebra

For the past three days, I have been dealing with power outages at my home, and the homes of my three children. While there is much being written about Smart Grid and hurricanes, let me give some personal experiences that … READ MORE

As today marks November 1, we take a moment to reflect on the top 5 DNV KEMA blog posts from October 2012. Last month, Ron Chebra and Rob Wilhite teamed up for Smart Grid Sherpa’s first collaborative blog series on … READ MORE

By Kevin Sullivan

Given the recent storm damage to the energy supply systems and infrastructure as a result of Sandy, it is a good time to ask the question: “What technologies would qualify as ‘smart’ if deployed in support of a city’s energy … READ MORE

By Peter Vaessen

There is a lot of talk about self healing grids, but it is often unclear what “self healing” really  means. Let me first start by saying that a self healing Smart Grid in the sense of self recovering or repairing—similar … READ MORE

By Paulo Roberto Pedroso de Oliveira

We all know that a great driver for any large scale development is economics. In terms of the Smart Grid, views are no different. Today, Brazil lives in an interesting reality. For historical reasons, large and expensive investments in big … READ MORE

By Craig Bialy

There’s been a lot of talk lately about the need for demand response (DR) programs as part of the emerging Smart Grid, particularly in the residential segment. Come to think of it, for a number of years there’s been a … READ MORE

Our Knowledge Base is filled with Smart Grid-related content in R&D, business cases, roadmap development, automated T&D, distribution generation, storage & EV, IT and telecom, public policy & regulation, and testing & certification services. Today, we’re highlighting our New Market … READ MORE

By Peter Vaessen

This is the fourth and final post in a series of blogs focused on power quality. To view the previous blogs in this series, please refer to the following links: Can power quality be managed and controlled by Smart Grids? … READ MORE