Unlocking the power of analytics with the right data in the right place As the Internet of Things becomes a reality, billions of connected devices are generating massive amounts of data. In fact, by 2020, the number of internet-connected things is estimated to reach 50 billion. All this data has a lot of potential for … Continue reading Unlocking the power of analytics with the right data in the right place
Illinois effort to help policymakers understand emerging grid technology Illinois regulators have launched a collaborative, statewide effort to share knowledge and build consensus around the myriad challenges facing a modernizing, 21st-century power grid. The effort, called NextGrid, aims to evaluate emerging grid technologies and to educate policymakers on the complex economic and engineering challenges that … Continue reading #Illinois effort to help policymakers understand emerging grid technology
How Can Machine Learning Create a Smarter Grid? Across the globe, energy systems are changing and creating unprecedented challenges for the organisations tasked with ensuring the lights stay on. In the UK, National Grid is facing shrinking margins, looming capacity shortages and unpredictable peaks and troughs in energy supply caused by increasing levels of renewable … Continue reading How Can Machine Learning Create a Smarter Grid?
Tower of Babel: Making Sure Smart Meters Speak the Same Language Connected devices are ushering in a new age. In the electric power sector, the smart meter is the building block for realizing the benefits of the Internet of Things (IoT). More than 50 million smart meters have been installed in homes across the United … Continue reading Making Sure Smart Meters Speak the Same Language
Controlling the Smart Grid Electricity doesn’t flow like water, and the U.S. grid is leaking reliability as many more renewable resources are being added. Grid modernization is needed to continue to allow continued anticipated growth in renewable and other energy sources, according to Mark Buckner, Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL), power and energy systems group … Continue reading Controlling the Smart Grid
Northeast utility installing smart switches to address outages, develop smart grid Investor-owned utility Eversource on Oct. 13 said that it is installing 200 smart switches on its system throughout Connecticut in order to make the state’s electric grid smarter and restore power outages more quickly. With these devices, outages can be restored with computer-assisted technology … Continue reading Northeast utility installing smart switches to address outages, develop smart grid
Eversource installing 200 ‘smart switches’ for self-healing grid Hoping to make Connecticut’s power grid smarter and reduce power outages across the state, Eversource Energy announced Thursday it’s installing 200 “smart switches” around the state that can decrease outages by 30 to 50 percent. The switches can be controlled from the company’s operations center to restore … Continue reading Eversource installing 200 ‘smart switches’ for self-healing grid
Behind New York Power Authority’s ‘Digital Avatar’ Project With GE How a $1 billion project will yield $2 billion in savings through predictive analytics and integrated operations The New York Power Authority is already a major user of smart grid technologies. With one of the country’s biggest smart energy R&D labs, big investments to ease … Continue reading Behind New York Power Authority’s ‘Digital Avatar’ Project With #GE #NYPA
Microsoft Strikes Cloud-Powered Smart Grid, Energy Policy Alliances Microsoft and its partners are betting that the cloud can help modernize electrical grids and hasten the spread of renewable energy. Microsoft is already a big proponent of supplying its own cloud data centers with clean power. Now the Redmond, Wash., software giant believes it can use … Continue reading #Microsoft Strikes Cloud-Powered Smart Grid, Energy Policy Alliances
Hurricane Matthew Tests Electric Grid’s New Storm-Resistant Technology Early indications suggest investments are paying off Hurricane Matthew is stress-testing a costly new effort by utilities and the U.S. government to make the nation’s electric grid more storm-resistant. Early indications: the investment is paying off. From 2008 through 2017, the U.S. government and utilities are expected … Continue reading Hurricane Matthew Tests Electric Grid’s New Storm-Resistant Technology
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