National Grid’s Sandy Pond High Voltage Direct Current Converter Station imports hydroelectric power from the north of Canada for distribution in the northeastern United States. The thyristor valve ...

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 ...

Industry Insight from Reuters Events, a part of Thomson Reuters. New data centers and factories are piling further pressure on grid deliveries but new manufacturing capacity will help to curb delays ...

The installation comes amid growing concern about grid fragility across Europe, brought into sharper focus by the April 2025 blackouts in Spain and Portugal. Those events disrupted essential services ...