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Energy Consumption Data – What is Privacy Worth?

September 6, 2010 by Christine Hertzog
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The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) recently published the latest draft of the Guidelines for Smart Grid Cyber Security, a collaborative public/private effort to assist individuals and organizations who will be addressing cyber security for Smart Grid systems.  The second volume focuses on Privacy and the Smart... [read more]

Philadelphia Subways to Brake for Energy Generation

September 2, 2010 by Scott Anderson
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Image by kitch via Flickr What do you get when you pair the latest 21st century energy technologies with with one of the country’s oldest transportation systems? Viridity Energy, a Philadelphia-area smart grid company, and the Southeastern Pennsylvania Transportation Authority (SEPTA), which has its origins in the early 1900s, when... [read more]

The Need for Bi-Directional Education in the Smart Grid

August 30, 2010 by Christine Hertzog
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Investor Owned Utilities (IOUs) have a monopoly status in the USA that is regulated by state utility commissions.  Depending on the state, IOUs are responsible for generating, transmitting, and distributing electricity; and interacting with ratepayers for customer services, outage reports, and billing questions.  In a few... [read more]
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Smart Grid and Consumers: Collaboration needed for Education

August 27, 2010 by Anto Budiardjo
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Smart Grid has been heralded by many as a key component to solving our energy challenges, fromrenewable integration and energy security to revitalized technology manufacturing and job creation.While much of the discussion has centered on the supply and infrastructure side, there’s a lot ofprogress that could be made, industry-wide, on... [read more]

The Smart Grid – It’s For More than Electrons

August 23, 2010 by Christine Hertzog
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The Smart Grid has traditionally been used to describe the electrical grid 2.0.  The distinctions between the traditional electrical grid, or version 1.0, and the Smart Grid cover the bidirectional flow of electricity and communications.  We need to extend our thinking about the smart grid to add distributed intelligence and... [read more]

Solar Power and the Smart Grid

August 6, 2010 by David Belden
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<!-- google_ad_section_start -->Perhaps as you’ve done your research into going solar, you’ve heard mention of the so-called “Smart Grid” and the challenges and opportunities it presents. Such a broad term can be confusing, however (and perhaps even bring to mind visions of a Terminator-esque future). So we’ll give you the... [read more]

Reliability and the Smart Grid

August 2, 2010 by Christine Hertzog
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 There are two schools of thought about how the Smart Grid will evolve.  One promotes a “system of systems” view, in which the current centralized structure continues to be the dominant model, and the other focuses on an interconnected network of microgrids.  There are pros and cons to each approach, but just like the old... [read more]
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Smart Grid Tour in the Northwest Focuses on Integrating Renewable Energy into the Grid

July 26, 2010 by Richard Wunderlich
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In Portland on July 14th, renewable energy was at the forefront of conversation. The Siemens Smart Grid Tour rolled into Portland on Wednesday, where integrating renewables into the power grid was a hot topic for local utilities. One such example, Puget Sound Energy recently announced that it will build a 350 megawatt wind turbine farm,... [read more]

Distributed Generation – Giving Power and Money to the People

July 26, 2010 by Christine Hertzog
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The NARUC (National Association of Regulatory Utility Commissioners) Summer Committee Meetings last week revealed a few sobering projections about our future electrical supply.  First, the Electric Power Research Institute (EPRI) anticipates that the cost of electricity will increase by 50% by 2030 even with use of all possible... [read more]

Smart Grid (R)evolutions We’d Like to See

July 19, 2010 by Christine Hertzog
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“The world hates change, yet it is the only thing that has brought progress.”  Charles F. Kettering, American inventor of the electrical ignition system and early distributed generation devices, made this observation.  As an inventor, he had ample experience as a change agent in trying to explain new ideas and technologies to... [read more]

The Smart Grid Improves the Reliability of the Electric Grid

July 5, 2010 by Christine Hertzog
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My mother is writing a book.  She learned how to use a computer, and has been diligently crafting her story chapter by chapter.  If only the local electric grid would cooperate.  A single power disruption of a few seconds wiped out an entire chapter of her book.  Now she is reworking a previous version and trying to... [read more]

A smart electric network – in more ways than one

June 29, 2010 by Rich Maltzman
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As we often do here on EarthPM, we are going to combine a couple of pertinent and important themes to hopefully strengthen some points that are key to each of them. The two themes we relate here are: Electric Smart Grids for effective power transmission and reduced carbon footprint High-powered Grids of Smart PMs to gain a bigger... [read more]