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Carving Renewables’ Role in the Smart Grid

April 23, 2011 by Dick DeBlasio
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The pressure on utilities to derive a greater percentage of their power from renewable sources is increasing globally, with dozens of countries having rolled out targets that encourage various clean-energy initiatives. The European Union’s “20/20/20” plan, for example, calls for a 20-percent reduction in greenhouse-gas emissions, 20-... [read more]

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Interoperate … or, Go Home.

December 10, 2010 by Anto Budiardjo
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“Interoperability, it’s not just a long word, it’s a long road,” said Bill Rose, Principal, WJR Consulting, Inc.This may have been one of the more quotable phrases during last week’s Grid-Interop, which attracted more than 500 Smart Grid interoperability experts. While the road is “long”, we have also made a lot of progress, and Grid-... [read more]

Infonugget: Smart grid framework

January 20, 2010 by Lou Grinzo
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If you divide how important some energy technology is to the future of mainstreamers by how much they know about it–call it the Invisibility Index–you’d be hard-pressed to come up with something that scores higher than changes to the electricity grid. Luckily, there are plenty of people thinking and talking about it, and even better,... [read more]