Collaborate Disseminate
You know how you can fall down a rabbit hole when you start on a project? [Fabian Bräunlein] and [Luca Melette] were looking at a box on a broken streetlamp …read more Continue reading 38C3: Taking Down the Power Grid Over Radio
Here’s a hypothetical situation. You decide to build your own steam generator plant and connect it to the electric grid. No matter where you live, you’d probably have to meet …read more Continue reading Does Solar Energy Make Us Vulnerable?
It’s been clear for a long time that the world has to move away from fossil energy sources. Decades ago, this seemed impractical, when renewable energy was hugely expensive, and …read more Continue reading New Renewable Energy Projects Are Overwhelming US Grids
If you watch YouTube long enough, it seems like going “off the grid” is all the rage these days. But what if the thing that goes off the grid is the …read more Continue reading Restarting The Grid When The Grid Is Off The Grid
Nowadays, some people in Europe worry about energy prices climbing, and even if all the related problems disappear overnight, we’ll no doubt be seeing some amounts of price increase. As …read more Continue reading Low-Voltage DC Network Build Incited By Solar Panels
With climate change concerns front of mind, the world is desperate to get to net-zero carbon output as soon as possible. While direct electrification is becoming popular for regular passenger …read more Continue reading Japan Wants to Decarbonize With The Help of Ammonia
We’ve all experienced power outages of some kind, be it a breaker tripping at an inconvenient time to a storm causing a lack of separation between a tree and a …read more Continue reading Cascade Failures, Computer Problems, and Ohms Law: Understanding the Northeast Blackout of 2003
Depending upon where in the world you live, AC mains frequency is either 50Hz or 60Hz, and that frequency is maintained accurately enough over time that it can be used …read more Continue reading Accurately Track Your Mains Frequency
The electric power grid, as it exists today, was designed about a century ago to accommodate large, dispersed power plants owned and controlled by the utilities themselves. At the time …read more Continue reading Emulating a Power Grid
[Russell Graves] lives in Idaho and recently connected his solar installation to the grid, which meant adhering to regulatory requirements for both the National Electric Code (NEC) as well as …read more Continue reading The Regulatory Side of Rolling Your Own Moderate Solar Farm