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Of Smart Grids and Resilience: Where’s My Microgrid?
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You can’t throw a stone at smart grid conference these days and not hit a panel talking about microgrids. The chatter is incessant, but the actual work done to date has been far more limited.[read more]
Grid Resiliency As a Social Benefit
Grid modernization offers tempting prosumer opportunities for commercial and residential consumers to enable at least some degree of self-sufficiency and reduce their payments.[read more]
How CHP Stepped Up When the Power Went Out During Hurricane Sandy
As noted in recent blog posts by Forbes contributor William Pentland and the New York Times’ Andrew Revkin, it’s instructive to look at where the lights stayed on during Hurricane Sandy to understand what makes certain places more resilient than others. While 8.5 million customers lost power during Sandy, a small number of facilities (...[read more]
The Smart Grid – Shifting Paradigms for Consumers
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Resiliency. It’s important for people (how well do we survive challenges), cities (how quickly can urban environments rebound from an earthquake or major weather event), and nations (how effectively can a country recover from a widespread catastrophe). As discussed in previous articles, today’s electricity grid lacks...[read more]
Can New Market Participants Make the Grid more Resilient?
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Back when the light bulb was the killer app of 1879 and the nascent electrical grid was shaped by a series of technological innovations, reliability was the most important metric to structure grid performance expectations. People had much less reliance on the grid then. The economy could get along with the technologies...[read more]
Grid Resiliency Is Required for Improved Grid Reliability
The Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) co-chairs of the recent Smart Grid study titled “The Future of the Electric Grid” just visited Silicon Valley to discuss their report with investors and entrepreneurs. If you haven’t read the study, I recommend it because it’s an interesting read. The study co-...[read more]
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