When Germany met all but 0.3 gigawatts (GWs) of its peak energy demand for a few hours using renewables this May, the excitement generated a lot of headlines. The headlines missed key details, though ...

A recent study found that electric vehicle (EV) batteries used as a utility virtual power plant (VPP) could shift the entire residential peak load to nighttime hours with only 10% EV market saturation ...

U.S. power plants fall into three categories: base load, peak load, and intermediate load. The U.S. relies heavily on natural gas and nuclear plants for reliable energy production, with wind and solar ...

Specifying an ac-dc power supply for systems with peak load requirements that are higher than the normal power requirements for short periods can result in larger, higher-power, and higher-cost ...