energy

Texas A&M Smart Grid Director Thomas Overbye doesn’t expect significant problems with the Texas power grid this summer, but says the entire nation is at risk from high-impact, low-frequency events.

The team is studying the adoption of these systems as an alternative to fossil fuel-based power plants.

Texas A&M researchers are developing an ocean renewable energy station that could combine wind, wave, current and solar energy methods on a floating offshore platform.

A Texas A&M-Galveston project from the Marine Engineering Technology Department will show students how to build solar panels and wind turbines.

A metric designed by researchers at Texas A&M can calculate and forecast the average price of energy in the United States.

It's the kind of issue that researchers at the Texas A&M Engineering Experiment Station's Smart Grid Center aim to prevent in the future by finding solutions for a more resilient power system.

Charles Culp is leading a new way of thinking about energy use in residential and commercial spaces.

Thorium-based nuclear fuel pellets will be manufactured on campus at the Nuclear Engineering and Science Center.

Texas A&M researchers have designed a new energy storage device that can store a charge up to 900 times greater than state-of-the-art supercapacitors.

A device developed by Texas A&M researchers could make homes more energy independent help utility companies improve distribution during outages.