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How we got here You’ve come a long way, baby!  That’s how I feel sometimes when I think about the early days of the Utility Wind Interest Group (UWIG).  We started UWIG in 1989 with six US utilities, and now we are the Energy Systems Integration Group (ESIG) with 180 members from around the world!…

The electric grid as we know it is changing. The generating resource mix is shifting with the retirement of natural gas, coal and nuclear plants combined with the introduction of renewable energy resources such as wind and solar photovoltaic (PV) power plants. With these changes come changes in the technology deployed on the bulk power…

The operation of power systems with high shares of wind and solar energy requires reliable tools to facilitate a secure grid and market integration. For over 15 years many firms and research institutes around the world have been developing and operating forecast systems to capture the weather-dependent variability in the power production of a huge…

The Energy Web Foundation is supporting the commercial implementation of blockchain applications that promote investments in clean, secure, and reliable electricity systems worldwide. Blockchain technology—the technology underpinning Bitcoin, Ethereum, and numerous other digital currencies— has the potential to profoundly transform the energy sector. Specifically, we believe blockchain will redesign the rules of the game on…

In a perfect world, grid-connected energy storage plants might never make sense. The diversity and inherent flexibility of thousands of generators and loads in a large power system should provide all the flexibility that we could need to continuously match supply and demand at a very low cost, even with variable renewables dominating our generation…