Hive: Planning To Turn The Hum Of Thousands Of Smart Meters Into A Supercomputer Platform I recently spoke with representatives at Hive Computing, Inc. – a fledgling start-up with a revolutionary idea that meshes smart meters and computing, and that may take the shared economy to a new level. Hive plans to connect smart meters … Continue reading Hive: Planning To Turn The Hum Of Thousands Of Smart Meters Into A Supercomputer Platform→
Stuxnet-style attack on US smart grid could cost government $1 trillion The Lloyds ‘Business Blackout’ report was co-authored by the insurer and the University of Cambridge Centre for Risk Studies, whilst also seeking the advice of the Cabinet Office, the Department of Homeland Security and security firms including IOActive and Context, among many others. The … Continue reading Stuxnet-style attack on US smart grid could cost government $1 trillion→
The Big Picture From Grid Edge Live 2015 GTM’s second-annual Grid Edge Live conference drew more than 500 attendees to Rancho Bernardo, Calif. to talk about a pressing issue facing the world’s utility and energy industries: how to manage the emergence of a distributed, low-carbon, customer-enabled energy future. This challenge looks different, depending on which … Continue reading The Big Picture From Grid Edge Live 2015→
Customers Slow to Adopt Smart Pricing Smart grid technology has seen widespread deployment. Seven states and the District of Columbia achieved adoption rates of greater than 70 percent by the end of 2013, according to data from the Energy Information Administration – including California and Texas, the two largest states. The top 10 states for … Continue reading Customers Slow to Adopt Smart Pricing→
Distributed technique for power scheduling advances smart grid concept Researchers from North Carolina State University have developed a new technique for “scheduling” energy in electric grids that moves away from centralized management by tapping into the distributed computing power of energy devices. The approach advances the smart grid concept by coordinating the energy being produced … Continue reading Distributed technique for power scheduling advances smart grid concept→
FPL technology investment should result in fewer outages Florida Power and Light customers should see fewer power outages going forward and shorter wait times when outages do occur. The company is installing 20,000 automated lateral switches across its 35 county coverage area that will not only let FPL know where and when there is an … Continue reading #FPL technology investment should result in fewer outages→
CEOs grapple with an elephant in the room — the future of electricity When Tesla CEO Elon Musk entered a New Orleans ballroom full of utility CEOs earlier this month, he did so as an odd evangelist for expanding the power grid. The Silicon Valley electric car entrepreneur sought to reassure America’s powerful investor-owned utilities … Continue reading CEOs grapple with an elephant in the room — the future of #electricity→
Report: Microgrids are ‘central pillars of today’s local energy revolution’ MicrogridKnowledge.com has issued a free white paper aimed at educating community leaders about microgrids and how they can be developed. While the paper is fairly broad, sketching out general concepts and defining terms, it notes that microgrids are “a key feature of the new clean … Continue reading Report: Microgrid s are ‘central pillars of today’s local energy revolution’→
‘Smart Grid’ Comes to Live Oak Pacific Gas and Electric Company (PG&E) is installing intelligent switches to build a smart grid serving the Live Oak area. In the event of an outage, this self-healing technology can isolate a trouble spot such as a downed power line or a utility pole damaged by a car crash, … Continue reading ‘Smart Grid’ Comes to Live Oak→
Bonneville Power Uses Analytics to Manage Demand Among the challenges faced by electric utilities, especially during the summer cooling season, is managing peak demand while figuring out how to integrate intermittent power sources into the grid. Increasingly, big data analytics tools are being applied to the emerging smart grid as a way to gauge demand … Continue reading Bonneville Power Uses Analytics to Manage Demand→
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