Comments on: Energy 101: What Is a Smart Grid?

By: DOE Awards $19 Million To Five Plans To Modernise National Grid | Inhabitat - Green Design Will Save the World

Wed, 24 Nov 2010 22:46:21 +0000

[...] projects, each aimed at optimizing the country’s national grid. The DOE said that the smart grid projects will create a ‘leaner and more efficient, reliable, resilient and responsive’ [...]

By: GE's Ecomagination Challenge Unveils 5 Winning Energy Solutions | Inhabitat - Green Design Will Save the World

Tue, 16 Nov 2010 19:51:54 +0000

[...] July, is part of General Electric’s Ecomagination initiative to accelerate development of the next-gen power grid and global energy transformation through open collaboration. The five winners of the challenge will [...]

By: Pushpendra

Pushpendra — Tue, 12 Jan 2010 10:10:39 +0000

smart grid is a vision to upgrade the existing grid with help of modern communication technologies, real time computational techniques and advanced sensors to improve the efficiency and reliability.

By: oikk

oikk — Wed, 02 Sep 2009 07:18:08 +0000

SG doesnt cover our needs, indeed. There is no way to stop producing coil, gaz power plants in 20-40 years to cover uninspected demands with uninspectorate(wind) and unreliable (alternative) power producing.
When one construct smart grid utilities can predict or coordinate power consumption, but what we should do when wind suddenly stops night? thats why Grid need a “warm” standby coil plants.
All we need NOW is to rationalize existing grid with SMARTGRID project and may be think about transmition lots of Megawatts from east to west to cover US power demands. Make kind of National Super-Grid network.
And on default make investments in alternative energy researches.
Kirill

By: solarjohn

solarjohn — Thu, 30 Jul 2009 19:12:22 +0000

Your perspective would change dramatically if you were to install a solar or wind system at your own residence. I don’t have the time or desire to list the many ways you are wrong. solarjohn

By: Unhabitat

Unhabitat — Thu, 21 May 2009 19:13:14 +0000

The “Smart Grid” is a rationing device. Nothing more. Nothing less.

Rationing is what you do when you cannot meet real needs.

Can’t afford promised Social Security benefits? Raise the retirement age to 67 and beyond, and call it “Social Security Reform”. Can’t afford universal healthcare? Ration services, and call it “Healthcare Reform”.

Rationing. Waht you do when you *know* that wind, solar, geothermal, etc simply cannot fullfill our energy needs. Certainly not today, and maybe not ever.

We need to use all the tools we have available today so that wind, solar, and geothermal can take their CURRENTLY rightful places as SUPPLEMENTARY sources of energy.

By: Jose Antonio Vanderhorst-Silverio

Jose Antonio Vanderhorst-Silverio — Sat, 02 May 2009 15:12:34 +0000

Maybe the solution will be to concentrate on demand side innovations (DSI) of the EWPC Regulatory Framework instead of demand side management (DSM) of the IOUs Regulatory Framework.

Zero net energy homes are already in the making. The Rocky Mountain Institute has one demonstration. Among many other DSIs, breakthroughs are expected, for example, in regenerative net output energy buildings.

Please take a look at the EWPC article Forget Demand Side management (DSM); Think Demand Side Innovation (DSI) in the Internet hyperlink http://www.energyblogs.com/ewpc/index.cfm/2009/4/7/Forget-Demand-Side-management-DSM-Think-Demand-Side-Innovation-DSI

By: jeanX

jeanX — Fri, 01 May 2009 22:20:29 +0000

The NE gets electricity from COAL, from the Mid-West.Other parts of the country may also.
I thought ‘smart-grid’ existed BETWEEN tectonic plates.
What’s the story?
I can’t believe wind and solar will provide enough power to heat our homes, provide for our appliances,
drive our cars anytime soon.It gets very cold in the North and for those having a continental climate.

By: wjl

wjl — Fri, 01 May 2009 20:59:31 +0000

In a single paragraph…

The goal of a smart grid is to collect and provide the optimal amount of information
necessary for customers, distributors and generators to change their behavior in a way
that reduces system demands and costs, increases energy efficiency, optimally allocates
and matches demand and resources to meet that demand, and increases the reliability of
the grid. The social benefits of a smart grid are reduced emissions, lower costs, increased
reliability, greater security and flexibility to accommodate new energy technologies,
including renewable, intermittent and distributed sources.

By: Jose Antonio Vanderhorst-Silverio

Jose Antonio Vanderhorst-Silverio — Fri, 01 May 2009 12:18:43 +0000

The above Smart Grid definition is bound to change sooner than the 5 or 10 years you may get it at home. For example, the distinction between transmission and distribution (T&D) will end, as a T&D regulated transporter will be needed.

The Smart Grid definition is based on the obsolete Investor Owned Utilities (IOUs) Framework under the policy E1P2 (economics first, performance second). The emerging Electricity Without Price Control (EWPC) Framework will replace the IOUs Framework with a P1E2 policy to enable organic business model innovations that will replace the big bets that state regulators are being forced to make right now.

To get introduced in the issues read the EWPC article “Why President Obama Needs to Keep Working on Energy” in the internet hyperlink http://www.energyblogs.com/ewpc/index.cfm/2009/4/30/Why-President-Obama-Needs-to-Keep-Working-on-Energy

By: ZJImmmy Dwop

ZJImmmy Dwop — Fri, 01 May 2009 11:49:54 +0000

Wow, now THAT is some cool stuff dude!

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