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TOP 10 KNOWLEDGE CENTERS PLOW AHEAD DESPITE ECONOMICS WOESAS WITH ANY NEW TECHNOLOGY, THE "EXPERTS" TEND TO BE THOSE WHO have any knowledge on the subject. But who are the true experts when it comes to smart grid and intelligent utility? I recently poured through the groups representing themselves as knowledge centers in this market to discover which ones might actually be of some real use. Here's what I found. Table 1 lists the top 10...
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INTELLIGENT VIEWPOINTS WITH SAWS AND PGÐIS REGULAR COLUMN FOR INTELLIGENT UTILITY PRESENTS THE INSIGHTS of utility leaders regarding the development of the emerging smart grid and intelligent utility. Last issue's column focused on smarter ways to manage risk. This issue's column discusses benefits to utilities from conservation. Good environmental decisions may be made for the sake of doing good, but utilities should...
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NATIONAL GRID, BPA LOOK AT RENEWABLES Challenges From generation to the end userWHEN WIND FARM DEVELOPERS LINED UP AT A GRID OPERATOR'S OR utility's door a few years ago, plans to add a new project didn't cause undue concern. After all, 10 MW here, 50 MW there, weren't going to significantly change the scheduling of resource dispatch or burden interconnections throughout a region.Now that wind projects are measuring in the hundreds of MWs in recent years, they are not only...
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OBAMA'S ROLE IN THE NEW ENERGY ECONOMYTHE ENERGY SECTOR IS SET TO SPARK THE REJUVENATION OF America. It's all about the production of alternative energy and green jobs and it's all about to be spearheaded by the president of the United States.President Barack Obama and Congress are in the midst of pouring nearly $1 trillion dollars into the American economy in the form of spending and tax cuts to serve as the central...
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REDUCING TSD LINE LOSSES TO REDUCE CARBON EMISSIONSAS THE PRESSURE TO MINIMIZE CARBON EMISSIONS mounts, policymakers and electric utilities have been pursuing energy efficiency with a renewed sense of urgency as a means toward this end. While most of the attention in energy efficiency has focused on more efficient end-use of electricity, there is growing interest in expanding the scope of energy efficiency to include more efficient...
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LIPA DISCUSSES SOLUTIONS"CUSTOMERS UNDERSTAND THAT WE ARE NOW IN AN evolution," insisted Bruce Germano, vice president of retail service for Long Island Power Authority (LIPA). "When people are thinking green, they are thinking globally - in energy, water and everything they do. And people are thinking more about renewables to recognize the long-term value." And Germano would know. Previously serving as...
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NIST AND GWAC ON TODAY AND TOMORROWFIRST OF ALL, BEFORE DISCUSSING THE EFFORTS OF THE NATIONAL Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) and the GridWise Architecture Council (GWAC), we need to get something out on the table. Interoperability for a smarter grid and a more intelligent utility involves more than just technical standards. It covers informational and organizational standards, too. For example, standards...
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INTEROPERABILITY LESSONS FROM MANUFACTURING'S TURNTHE SMART GRID/INTELLIGENT UTILITY CONCEPT IS exploding onto the scene, accompanied by promises of increased efficiency, cost savings, load-leveling through demand response schemes, and postponing the need to build additional power plants. As the utility industry begins to tackle the details on how all of this will work, we have the opportunity to leverage years of hard work and...
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CONSUMERS ENERGY MOVES AHEADTHE SMART UTILITY IS ONE THAT DEPLOYS SYSTEMS intelligently. In today's climate of mergers and acquisitions, vendor failures, and technology advances, the intelligent deployment of technology typically means looking at standards-based solutions. "Within the next 30 years, we will see a shift to distributed energy solutions that will need to be communicated to and managed," said...
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DR IS HERE, AGAINTHE CONCEPT OF DEMAND RESPONSE (DR) HAS BEEN AROUND FOR A LONG TIME. IN the 1990s, it was called demand side management. In the mid-1990s, a number of what we now call smart homes and at least two fully automated subdivisions were built - one in Arkansas and another in Georgia. They were ahead of their time then. Their time may be about to arrive.DR is a means of reducing consumption of...
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