The energy market is rapidly changing. In the past several years, power grids have transformed from a few well-controlled generating units to multiple distributed energy resources connected to a vast system managed by increasingly digital solutions.

About 600 million people in sub-Saharan Africa have no access to any form of electricity.

In 2017, Peru set a target of 100% rural electrification by 2021, requiring new transmission lines.

It is clear the Chinese, Russians, North Koreans, Iranians, etc. have been actively trying to hack into the US grid

“Stand-alone power systems, which are usually a combination of solar, batteries and a back-up generator, are getting cheaper and more sophisticated. In contrast, supplying customers using poles and wires in remote areas can be very costly.”

U.S. power grid weighted-average 5.8% decrease in demand for 2020 versus the same period in 2019.

Enter the Distribution Fault Anticipation, or DFA for short. Developed by a team of researchers at Texas A&M, the DFA is a suite of technology designed to monitor grid systems and identify potential problems before they happen. More specifically, it’s a distributed computing system that works autonomously to give operators a non-stop picture of the condition of each circuit.

Hybrid microgrids make economic and environmental sense on their own in many places. And blockchain is active in the energy world.