Technology
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Dutch Network Operators Select Trilliant for Next-Generation Metering Gateways
Trilliant’s selection covers gateway development for the Dutch NextGen metering programme. Interoperability is a design objective; nationwide deployment is not complete.
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ABB Reports Record Orders as Data-Center Demand Accelerates
Third-quarter orders reached $12.055 billion. ABB reported triple-digit order growth in data centers, while advancing a proposed Mitsubishi Electric joint venture.
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The New Oscillation Modes Nobody Designed For
How converter controls, subsynchronous interactions, phase-locked loops, and shared networks create oscillation risks—and why accurate models, measurements, and coordinated engineering matter.
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From Rotating Machines to Digital Controllers: Why Inverters Are Changing Grid Stability
How synchronous machines, grid-following and grid-forming inverters, weak-grid interactions, and battery controls are changing the engineering of power-system stability.
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When the Grid Cannot Deliver: How Electricity Delays Are Reshaping AI Data-Center Expansion
Microsoft’s withdrawal from a planned Nscale facility in Britain exposes a growing infrastructure problem: AI projects can be ready to move forward long before the electricity network is ready to serve them.
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The Grid Cannot Wait for New Transmission Lines. Can Advanced Technologies Unlock Existing Capacity?
DOE’s Virginia and West Virginia initiative highlights a faster approach to transmission expansion—and the engineering limits that still matter.
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The Return of Oscillations — Why the Renewable Grid Has a New Stability Problem
How inverter-based resources change oscillation mechanisms, control interactions, and the engineering methods needed to maintain adequate damping and grid stability.
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Who Wins? Companies and Technologies Positioned for the Power Electronics Supercycle
Part 8 examines the technologies and industrial capabilities behind the converter-based grid—and why engineering, manufacturing, and reliable system integration may define its long-term winners.
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Protection Challenges in Inverter-Dominated Power Systems
Inverter-based resources are changing how the grid detects faults. Part 7 explores fault-current limits, relay coordination, synchronized measurements, and the engineering tools needed to protect the modern power system.
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Silicon Carbide: The Semiconductor Revolution Powering the Future Grid
Silicon carbide is expanding the design possibilities for power converters, enabling lower losses, greater power density, and new approaches to medium-voltage grid equipment.