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Army and industry align on common data baseline, as Next Generation Command and Control moves from prototyping to delivery

WASHINGTON — The U.S. Army announced today it has established the Next Generation Command and Control (NGC2) common data layer baseline, following NGC2 operational validations at the 4th Infantry ...
POWER Magazine

From Tail Risk to Design Baseline: How the Grid Is Adapting to Extreme Heat

System planners and grid operators are treating extreme heat as an assumed operating condition given new pressures, including drought, demand growth, and fuel concerns. Will it be enough? For decades, ...
Los Angeles Times

Cheap batteries are taking over the world’s power grids

Around the world, a wave of mega installations of batteries are lining up to be connected to the grid this year — from solar hubs in Texas to grasslands in inner Mongolia and the site of a former coal ...
Reuters

US utilities scale up grid-boosting tech to meet surging demand

Industry Insight from Reuters Events, a part of Thomson Reuters. U.S. grid owners are investing in cost-efficient grid enhancements and virtual power plant schemes to help meet soaring demand but ...
Wall Street Journal

A New Threat to Power Grids: Data Centers Unplugging at Once

Early last year, a cluster of data centers in Virginia suddenly dropped off the power grid, threatening the stability of the already vulnerable system. The roughly 40 data centers, which had been ...
Redmond Magazine

Microsoft Releases Security Baseline for Windows Server 2025, Version 2602

Microsoft releases Windows Server 2025 version 2602 security baseline guidance. Updated policies address sudo behavior, disable Internet Explorer 11 and enhanced NTLM auditing. Security baseline ...
The New York Times

Grids Are Surviving the Storm. But the Next 5 Years Could Be Rough.

A group that monitors the U.S. electricity system warns that grid reliability is “worsening” and blackout risks are rising for millions of people. By Brad Plumer Reporting from Washington The ...
NBC DFW

Data centers threaten to overload US electricity grids

With the explosive growth of Big Tech's data centers threatening to overload U.S. electricity grids, policymakers are taking a hard look at a tough-love solution: bumping the energy-hungry data ...
Forbes

Is The U.S. Headed For A Power Grid Crisis?

PEMBROKE PINES, FLORIDA - MAY 16: High voltage power lines run along the electrical power grid on May 16, 2024, in Pembroke Pines, Florida. The grid is strained by increasing demand from ...
Nature

Smart grids

SDG 7 - Affordable and Clean Energy. This Collection calls for submissions of original research into methods that support the deployment of smart grids, driving progress in energy management, grid ...