Ben Ames has spent 30 years as a journalist since starting out as a reporter for daily newspapers in Pennsylvania and Massachusetts. He has focused on business and technology reporting since 1999 for ...

Washington, D.C., and the DMV will host the third major "No Kings" march and rally on Saturday, March 28, 2026, as part of nationwide demonstrations. Local chapters of Indivisible and allied ...

European developer Pure Data Centres Group has detailed what it says will be Europe’s first islanded (off-grid) microgrid to power a data center. The facility in Dublin, Ireland, was completed in ...

AVK and Pure Data Centres’ microgrid-connected data center in Ireland could mark the region’s first step toward a privately powered ecosystem. Ireland eased its energy moratorium on data centers late ...

A reinforcement learning framework for optimal energy management in residential microgrids with battery energy storage systems (BESS). This project implements and compares multiple RL agents against a ...

Abstract: DC microgrids have begun to play a significant role within the broader landscape of the electric distribution systems. There are different structures for these microgrids in which their ...

Go here for live coverage of the snowstorm on Monday, Feb. 23. After starting out as rain, clumpy wet snowflakes began falling Sunday afternoon in the D.C. area. While it's not sticking in most spots ...

Bowser declares an emergency and asks FEMA for help after the Potomac sewage spill. A pipeline collapse sent more than 240 million gallons of sewage into the river. Officials say the region’s drinking ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Gaurav Sharma is a London-based analyst who covers energy & ESG. Since the early days of electricity, alternative current or ‘AC’ ...

ABSTRACT: Distributed Integrated Energy Microgrid, as a key infrastructure for the low-carbon transition of regional energy systems, faces critical challenges in achieving optimal operation—primarily ...