A number of technical challenges have come together to make power grid design one of the most challenging design issues today. Creating the right power grid is a growing problem in leading-edge chips.

While doing research on the web for this column, I came across a professor’s handout on design fundamentals. The lead paragraph talks about applying basic design principles every time you design a ...

Off Grid By Design specializes in comprehensive grid-tied, off-grid and hybrid residential and commercial solar panel system design, installation and maintenance. Its service area extends across the ...

To the extent that the popular media understands the Smart Grid at all, it’s seen in terms of “smart meters” that are going to, say, let the utilities turn off consumers’ clothes dryers. Yet it really ...

Do websites dream of electric designers? Can web content know itself? The Grid, a San Francisco startup, is changing the way websites are designed by radically changing the role of the designer. This ...

The current power infrastructure is in need of an update for better efficiency, reliability, and safety. Standards organizations and engineers have risen to the challenge, promising to solve many ...

Svinningegaarden, a 33.9MWp project on Zeeland (pictured), was one of the first projects in Europe to deploy new large-format 540Wp bifacial modules from LONGi. Image: European Energy. Jan Vedde, ...

Imagine that you go to your kitchen to get a drink and pass your home’s energy-usage monitor. Due to a recent heat wave, you see that your energy usage is already at what it usually is for the entire ...

A recent trend confusing two quite different terms has had a huge negative impact on the yield, reliability, and manufacturability of DSM (deep-submicron) and subwavelength semiconductor designs. This ...

Making the process of building websites less complicated is a growth industry. Just look at the success of WordPress and Squarespace. Yet with all the templates and customization available from these ...