Tag: Grid Resilience Week

by Paul Alongi August 6, 2026 Engineers are crucial to the electric grid, but it worked so well for so long that it became a victim of its own success– many engineering students started to see it as boring and looked elsewhere for careers they perceived as more exciting. All that is starting to change, […]

by Paul Alongi August 5, 2026 The electric grid is not the kind of place you want to run risky experiments. If something goes wrong, the consequences could spread fast, with darkened homes, shuttered schools and internet outages, just to start. That’s why Clemson University’s grid emulator is so important. The Duke Energy eGRID gives utilities, manufacturers […]

by Paul Alongi August 4, 2026 It is hard to overstate the stakes in Clemson University’s work on one of the globe’s greatest engineering marvels, an invention so fundamental to 21st century life that most people notice it only when it fails– and then it’s impossible to ignore. The electric grid cools homes, charges phones, […]

by Paul Alongi August 3, 2026 By Hai Xiao and Anand Gramopadhye The electric grid is one of the great engineering achievements of modern life. Most days, it works so well that we barely notice it. We flip a switch, charge a phone, cool a home, power a factory or run a hospital, and we […]