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Infrastructure Upgrades, Time-of-Use Pricing Offer Best Ramp-Up Opportunity For Smart Grid
Those three hurdles are on the agenda of just about every utility, vendor and consultant vying to enable the Smart Grid’s potential in the U.S. and to capitalize on its ability to help consumers save energy and understand how much they waste it. But regulators are the gatekeepers and will have the final say. Therein lies the conundrum... [read more]
The Future of Energy Enabled By Smart Grid
“In addition to new energy efficiencies, we’ll be looking at social efficiencies.” -- Erich Gunther, Chief Technology Officer, EnerNex. Gunther described the many changes he foresees in the future, including the drastic improvements in energy and social efficiencies -- referencing shared car services and public charging stations, just to... [read more]
GridWeek: Collaboration is the “Smart Grid” Word of the Day
“Those we leave behind may drag us down.” P. Uma Shankar, India’s Secretary of Power, may have summarized the Monday of GridWeek best. And as the undercurrent of the GridWeek conference, “collaboration” was a much-repeated theme on the event’s opening day. With skyrocketing electrical demand -- potentially the fastest-growing in the... [read more]
Smart Grid: Meeting the Challenges of our Times
I was inspired by an email I read today from one of our GridWeek sponsors. A Cleveland-resident, he has chosen to cancel his plane ticket to D.C. next week and instead hop on his motorcycle in a personal memorial ride for those who died on September 11. His first stop, the 9/11 memorial in Stonycreek Township, Pennsylvania, where... [read more]
Washington Opens The Door To International Smart Grid Business
By 2030, it’s estimated that utilities worldwide will spend $378 billion (USD) to build Smart Grids, according to Innovation Observatory, and 80 percent of that spending will be concentrated in 10 countries. Major spenders will include the U.S., Brazil, India, China and several European nations. It’s also predicted that transmission and... [read more]
Economics or Politics? Moving Forward with Smart Grid
As debates and negotiations over the debt ceiling have been consuming congressional leaders, policymakers’ minds are probably far from Smart Grid and the future of our energy systems -- at least right now. But, for the electricity industry, the ways in which the economics of Smart Grid contribute to our long-term energy security and... [read more]
Collaboration Fuels Smart Grid Progress – Major Industry Players Get Behind OpenADR Alliance
Today, a group of major Smart Grid organizations and players announced the formation of the OpenADR Alliance – a nonprofit corporation created to foster the development, adoption and compliance of a Smart Grid standard known as Open Automated Demand Response (OpenADR). By name, those heavy hitters include Pacific Gas & Electric... [read more]
What Keeps Smart Grid Leaders Awake At Night?
Halloween is the season for frights and scares. And in keeping with that theme, let’s consider what keeps our leading government officials and industry representatives for the Smart Grid awake at night. The final GridWeek panel discussion last Thursday featured Jon Wellinghoff (Federal Energy Regulatory Commission – FERC),... [read more]
Top U.S. Government Official Recognizes Collaboration as Key Smart Grid Driver, GridWeek
We’ve come a long way in the years since GridWeek started – from 2007 when Smart Grid was a much-talked about idea, to 2008 when we started seeing early pilots, to 2009 when the industry buzzed with the excitement of economic “stimulus” dollars, and now, in 2010, when we are facing the challenges and realities of large-scale deployments... [read more]
Siemens' Craig Cavanaugh on Smart Grids and Changing Consumer Behavior (and More)
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Editor's note: Siemens is a primary sponsor of The Energy Collective. On Wednesday, I caught up with Craig Cavanaugh, Director of Meter Services for Siemens Energy, at Gridweek 2010 in Washington, D.C. I asked Mr. Cavanaugh for his insights on the some of the challenges of building and managing a smarter electric grid, as well as... [read more]
GridWeek Tackles Smart Grid Consumer Engagement
There’s really very little question that consumer engagement will be critical for Smart Grid to succeed. No longer can we look at consumers as “ratepayers.” They are customers. And to deliver products and services of interest, we must first understand consumers, and then we must engage them in the discussions that will shape the future... [read more]
Selling the Smart Grid to Consumers
Most experts agree that building a smarter electric grid is essential to improving energy efficiency and reducing CO2 emissions, because a smart grid would both help to integrate renewable energy sources into the system and encourage much more efficient consumption of power. But in order to achieve this at the household level, everyday... [read more]
International Collaboration for Smart Grid Success –Highlights from GridWeek’s Opening Day
International delegates from Europe, Asia and the Americas joined discussions at GridWeek yesterday, which was themed around International Collaboration. Close to 1,000 were in attendance, and we anticipate 1,500 to engage in Smart Grid conversations over the course of this week.Kick-off From U.S. Commerce Secretary Gary Locke: Monday... [read more]
Calling all Troops for Smart Grid Deployment
In 2009, the Smart Grid industry was filled with hope for what the $4.5 billion in U.S. government stimulus dollars could mean for the acceleration of Smart Grid deployments.Hundreds of utilities applied for American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA) funding, $4.5 billion in awards were announced, and scarecrows danced on power lines... [read more]
Cisco "Smart grid is like the old, old west with pioneers:" GridWeek interview with Marie Hattar, Cisco VP for Smart Grid and Marketing
Between GridWeek sessions last week, I sat down with Marie Hattar, VP Network Systems and Security Solutions Marketing at Cisco, and talked with her about upcoming breakthroughs in smart grid data solutions, standards and interoperability of platforms, and Cisco's smart grid plans. Marie and other Cisco team members were... [read more]
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