The U.S. west is suffering a major heat wave which may result in rolling blackouts and reminders not to charge electric cars in the afternoon. With California also ordering that all cars by 2035 be ...

My brother once tried to plug everything he could think of into one power strip to keep his room tidy; a toaster, his laptop, a fan, a heater. Well, the whole darn thing tripped the circuit and we ...

Don't overload power strips; always use wall outlets for high-wattage items. Unplug or turn off power strips when not in use. Buy high-quality power strips with surge protection. Most household ...

Back in the day (not all that long ago), driving around in your father's Oldsmobile, AM/FM radio, tape deck, and air conditioning marked the height of automotive luxury. Today, many could not imagine ...

Designers parallel their power supplies to increase system power output or to provide fault tolerance. In this column, Contributing Editor Tom Curatolo discusses various techniques for load sharing ...

The operating profiles of traditional generators has changed to manage the variability of renewable resources. Several critical processes were not engineered to manage these highly variable operating ...