Grid-forming inverters don’t sound exotic, and indeed they’re not. But these prosaic chunks of equipment are key to connecting wind and solar farms with existing power grids in ways that keep the grids stable, especially as renewable energy produces more and more of our electricity.
I learned this and a whole lot more about the infrastructure needed to make electricity-delivery systems climate friendly by reading contributing correspondent Alexandra Witze’s article “An electrical grid update.” It’s part of our ongoing “The Climate Fix” series investigating how people around the world are devising climate change solutions. Other recent coverage has included the