Energy grids and networks articles from across Nature Portfolio

This study supports uncertainty-aware energy transition planning by identifying key uncertainty sources. In Puerto Rico, hurricane frequency and institutional inefficiency emerge as the two main drivers.

The authors model regional electricity grid coordination, which enables access to geographically dispersed resources. Results suggest grid integration can reduce planning uncertainty region-wide but may impact individual countries differently.

Energy equity calls for fair access to energy for all, but this sociological concept has not been defined in ways that are relevant to electric power systems. We provide a definition, summarize efforts so far and set out a roadmap of the challenges to be addressed to achieve equity of energy accessibility, affordability and resilience.

An article in Nature Cities assesses the deployable potential of rooftop solar photovoltaics across Chinese cities, finding that only 42% of the national technical potential is realistically deployable.

Efficient, safe and low-cost energy storage technologies are essential as renewable energy increasingly powers the grid.

The increasing demand for data centres risks greatly increasing greenhouse gas emissions. To prevent this problem from happening, data centres need to transition from being consumers to being prosumers.

An analysis of European carbon management shows that CO₂ and H₂ networks can complement each other. Transporting CO₂ and H₂ from low-cost regions with high availability to areas that process the two molecules into clean fuels or sequester CO₂ could reduce total energy system costs by up to 5.3%.

Amir Gazar describes the use of Bayesian networks and causal inference models to understand environmental impact assessments.