Developing Smarter Smart Grids Smart grids — power grids that adapt to changes in demand and reconfigure as needed to avoid overloads and other problems can reduce energy costs, help avoid blackouts and deter cyber attacks. They also pose new challenges. As power generation — and the communication and information processing associated with it — … Continue reading Developing Smarter Smart Grid s
Cloud computing: cornerstone of the next generation of smart-grid information technology Cloud computing is emerging as an ideal method of hosting and providing services over the internet, and is available in the form of private, public, combined, or hybrid cloud deployment models. It has a number of benefits for smart grid applications, such as cost-effectiveness, … Continue reading Cloud computing: cornerstone of the next generation of smart-grid information technology
ComEd’s plan to boost smart grid would hit customers’ wallets, critics say Commonwealth Edison on Thursday unveiled a plan that it billed as an expansion of ongoing efforts to overhaul the power grid and invest in renewable energy but that critics said would result in customers paying more to the electricity giant. The proposal joins … Continue reading ComEd’s plan to boost smart grid would hit customers’ wallets, critics say
What Energy Harvesting Means to Smart Grid and M2M Sectors ……There’s new research underway that can unlock the potentials for the Smart Grid and M2M sectors. It builds on energy harvesting research, but has the objective of completely eliminating the need for a wired power delivery or battery replacements in devices. The best phrase to … Continue reading What Energy Harvesting Means to Smart Grid and M2M Sectors
Annual Transmission Synchrophasor Revenue is Expected to Grow from $8.5 Billion in 2014 to $16.7 Billion in 2023, According to Navigant Research A recent report from Navigant Research analyzes the global market for the eight underlying technologies that are the primary components of synchrophasors/wide area situational awareness (SWASA) solutions, including global market forecasts for revenue … Continue reading Annual Transmission #Synchrophasor Revenue is Expected to Grow from $8.5 Billion in 2014 to $16.7 Billion in 2023, According to Navigant Research
How Synchrophasors Are Bringing The Grid Into The 21st Century Have you ever heard of a synchrophasor? It may sound like a word out of science fiction, but these mailbox-sized devices are already changing the electrical grid as we know it. The grid was born over a century ago, at a time when our needs … Continue reading How #Synchrophasors Are Bringing The Grid Into The 21st Century
Smart energy meters: Where’s the savings? Five years ago came the promise: A great new way of saving money on your energy bills was on its way. An impressive new device called a “smart meter” — a key component of the much touted “smart grid” — would let consumers actually see how much power they’re … Continue reading Smart energy meters: Where’s the savings?
What is Prosumer Value to Utilities? The Age of the Prosumer presents challenges for utilities accustomed to thinking of their customers in terms of kilowatthours consumed. The Smart Grid is responsible for these challenges, borne out of technology, policy, and capital innovations. These innovations are triggering many disruptions to the utility business model, and will … Continue reading What is Prosumer Value to Utilities?
The (old) power industry king is dead. Long live the (new) king San Diego is a place to see and be seen. Personally, I saw black-and-white panda bears and pink beach sunsets and orange-ish mai tais. And a lot of people saw me (through lots of meetings and lunches and drinks at one of the … Continue reading The (old) power industry king is dead Long live the (new) king
(Bloomberg) — Apple Inc. is working on an electric vehicle, according to people familiar with the matter, showing the consumer-electronics giant is open to stepping outside its lucrative focus on mobile devices. Read more at BloombergBusiness
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