Henry Buhl Library: ENTR 467: Corporate Innovation: Basics of the Power Grid

Power Grid Resources

The Power Grid

Grid Modernization and the Smart Grid
Information about the power grid from the U.S. Department of Energy.
How Does the U.S. Power Grid Work?
An overview on the power grid from the Council on Foreign Relations.
The Grid: Electricity Transmission, Industry, and Markets
Fast facts about the grid: Electricity transmission, industry, and markets (from Stanford University)

Transformers

The Solid-State Shift: Reinventing the Transformer for Modern Grids
A recent article from Power, a trade publication, that provides a good introduction and the names of some organizations researching ways to innovate transformers.
Solid State Transformer (SST)
Gain an understanding of solid state transformers from the FREEDM Architecture
FREEDM Systems Center (NC State University).
Solid-State AC-AC Transformers
Blog article from AstrodyneTDI on the topic.
Solid-state transformers: An overview of the concept, topology, and its applications in the smart grid
Open Access Review Article on transformers and the smart grid.