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Toward 2 Way Powerflow on the Smartgrid

December 6, 2011 by Dick DeBlasio
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Through Smart Grid rollout over decades, the world could bring reliable electricity delivery to more regions, create new economic opportunities, reduce carbon footprint andcreate a more cost-efficient facility for power delivery. But all of those potential benefits,to varying degree, are predicated on enabling an end-to-end system of two-way powerflow in which consumers would not only draw from the grid but also store and feed energy back to it. [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]

The importance of open standards for broad smart grid adoption

October 1, 2009 by Tom Raftery
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Photo credit Leo Reynolds If you are not sure why open standards are important, you need to read this quote from the opening address of the The Southern African Telecommunications Networks and Applications Conference 2005, by then Minister of Science and Technology, Mosibudi Mangena: The tsunami that devastated South Eastern Asian... [read more]

NIST Smart Grid Workshop

August 4, 2009 by Lynne Kiesling
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I’m at a NIST smart grid workshop, where the objective is to take the identified, prioritized smart grid interoperability standards requirements and start working on the game plan for developing interoperability standards out of them. Toby Considine sat next to me yesterday morning and wrote about his observations, so I’ll spare you... [read more]