In this chapter we looked at the technical elements of the new grid and saw how they come together to create a distributed version of the hub and spoke ‘old’ grid, with a cellular architecture.

Open Grid Services Architecture (OGSA) is a set of standards that extends Web services and service-oriented architecture to the grid computing environment.

Service-oriented architectures may be all the rage, but enterprises need better command over IT resources than they have today in order to use them effectively, argues grid pioneer Ian Foster. Topics ...

For years, cloud computing was synonymous with centralization. That era is over. Enter: the distributed cloud.

Virtual power plants turn distributed energy assets like EVs and solar into grid resources without new infrastructure.

With the proliferation of distributed energy resources (DERs), electric vehicles and smart loads, grid edge intelligence has moved from a luxury to a necessity. New Dynamics, New Architecture ...

Source: U.S. Department of Energy, Smart Grid System Report (2022). But it’s a slow process in such a large, capital-intensive, regulated industry, in contrast to the more nimble and ...

Distributed smart grid architectures are the backbone of this future. Through AI, big data, and cloud integration, we can build energy systems that are not only more resilient and efficient, ...

Deloitte’s report “Households transforming the grid: Distributed energy resources are key to affordable clean power” showed that the potential role for quickly deployable DER is likely even more ...