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The 21st Century Energy Transformation will be an Evolution, not a Revolution
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The possibilities to become active participants in the 21st century energy evolution are plentiful. But to succeed in it, one needs to understand the fundamentals of the business and have the strategic focus, resolve, and patience to ride it for the long run. [read more]
Smart Grid: From Vision to Benefits
Conversations on the vision, challenges, and benefits of the smart grid with Sonita Lontoh of Trilliant and Christine Hertzog of the Smart Grid Library. A TV interview archive. [read more]
Regional Transmission Efforts Good for Re-routing Information Flows to Regulators
Peter Behr, at ClimateWire, describes the U.S. Department of Energy’s efforts to rework its electric transmission study processes, created in the 2005 Energy Policy Act but stalled by adverse court decisions and political missteps. I’m not so sure that the new approaches will be any better received than the old, but I noticed in the... [read more]
Software Applications Poised for Growth in the Smart Grid
Intermittent renewables, energy storage, and management and analytics software applications are a triad of synergistic technologies. Synergy happens when two or more things combined produce more than their separate efforts could produce. The combination of these three technologies can deliver more reliable electricity and... [read more]
Toward 2 Way Powerflow on the Smartgrid
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]
How The Smart Grid Can Solve Climate Change
The United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change begins its latest meeting today in Durban, South Africa. Only the sunniest of optimists expect real progress in forging a global agreement as developing and developed nations argue about voluntary versus legally binding emissions reductions and funding measures. ... [read more]
Smart Grid Technologies and Trends Find Wider Applications
I'm at an international conference in Dalian, China that is focused on ubiquitous networks and the Internet of Things. That makes it all the more ironic that you can't get WiFi here. We're talking to eachother, but not to the outside world. The conference topics range from the latest research in radio frequency management to machine to machine (M2M) architecture and infrastructure challenges. What do these topics have to do with the Smart Grid? Everything. Wireless ubiquitous networks are the communications foundation for the Smart Grid as well as the Internet of Things. Cellular, WiFi, 6LoWPAN and other communications technologies and protocols will enable electricity consuming and producing devices to be remotely monitored and managed, which in turn foster optimized awareness and use of resources. And in the best sense of recycling, many of the early lessons learned about Smart Grid deployments can and should be applied to projects focused in smart cities and the Internet of Things (IoT). [read more]
Energy Consumers: Getting their Head in the Clouds
You’ve probably seen the Chevrolet commercial in which a man calls his wife, who is boarding an airplane, and asks, “Would you mind doing it again?” From an app on her smart phone, she starts her car, generating an “ooooh, sweet” response from her husband’s friend.This is the power of the “cloud.” And the technology exists today for... [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]
Boosting Electricity Reliability and Availability via Microgrids
In addition to reducing carbon footprint, empowering customers to more cost-efficiently manage their energy usage and fueling new business opportunities, the Smart Grid offers tremendous promise in terms of improving the reliability and availability of electricity service. Increased reliance on “microgrids” is one way how.In a microgrid... [read more]
Clean Renewables and Clean Energy Storage – A Perfect Combination of Domestic Resources
There are interesting synergies between renewable energy and energy storage that have profound implications for the Smart Grid and our energy and economic security. Wind and solar are readily available domestic sources of clean renewable electricity and share a common characteristic of intermittency. Wind tends to pick up at... [read more]
Will Gamification be the Biggest Smart Grid Game Changer?
Games are identified as one of the biggest trends for social media and mobile devices. Gamification is called the next big thing for marketing. Both have exciting implications for behavior change in the health care sector. So will social games and gamification play a significant role in changing consumption behaviors... [read more]
Smart Grid Lessons From Baltimore Gas & Electric
Ken DeFontes, President and CEO of Baltimore Gas & Electric, discusses his company’s approach to implementing smart grid technology into BG&E’s territory.Full Transcription:Justin Segall :Justin Segall here for the Daily Energy Report with Ken DeFontes, President and CEO of Baltimore Gas & Electric. Ken... [read more]
Natural Gas Explosion = Lessons for Smart Grid
An Independent Review Panel convened by the California Public Utilities Commission (CPUC) to study the causes of the September 9, 2010 gas pipeline explosion in San Bruno, California released its findings late last week. This tragic event caused the loss of eight lives, and scores more were impacted with losses of property and... [read more]
Utilities Must Step Up Communications To Recoup Smart Grid Investments
Tweet Smart grids don’t come cheap. They are typically projects costing in the order of hundreds of millions of dollars (or Euro’s, or pounds or whatever your currency of choice). Just think, the most fundamental piece of the smart grid, the smart meter, alone costs in the order of $100. When you factor in the costs of... [read more]
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Hidroenergia 2012
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Scott Edward Anderson is a consultant, blogger, and media commentator who blogs at The Green Skeptic. More »
Marc Gunther is a writer, speaker and consultant, who focuses on business and the environment. More »
Christine Hertzog is a consultant, author, and a professional explainer focused on Smart Grid. More »
Jesse Jenkins is the director of energy and climate policy at the Breakthrough Institute. More »
Robert Rapier works in the energy industry and writes and speaks about energy and the environment. More »
Geoffrey Styles is Managing Director of GSW Strategy Group, LLC and an award-winning blogger. More »
Dan Yurman is a nuclear energy blogger and writes regularly for Fuel Cycle Week. More »
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