Researchers at AIST, in collaboration with the Institute of Science Tokyo and the National Institutes for Quantum Science and Technology, have developed a "current comparator" that uses diamond ...

The battery as we know it today was an invention of Italian chemist and physicist Alessandro Volta. He witnessed electricity splitting water into its constituent elements of oxygen and hydrogen and ...

Building the future grid requires a Swiss Army knife approach, in this look at direct current technology for hybrid ...

The nanogrid demonstration project integrates both alternating and direct current power systems in an effort to balance smart ...

Superconductivity is an advantageous property observed in some materials, which entails an electrical resistance of zero at extremely low temperatures. Superconductors, materials that exhibit this ...

ABB today published a new report, The Strategic Case for Hybrid AC/DC Power: Shaping the Transition to the Next Electrical Architecture, developed in collaboration with Boston Consulting Group (BCG).

AC and DC current are to EVs what petrol and diesel are to traditional combustion-powered cars. You can think of them as ‘fuels’ to fill up your electric car’s battery. Unlike when choosing the ...

A common data logging application is measuring voltage or current flowing into or out of a piece of equipment, such as a user monitoring current in solar cells, inverters, or storage batteries. These ...

Data centers are facing a growing power problem with no simple fixes. The International Energy Agency projects that global data center electricity consumption will surge from 415 TWh in 2024 to 945 ...

Case study examines a common PV inverter failure that can drive uncommon issues in the field — namely, damage to the AC protection equipment from DC fault currents for short periods during transformer ...