Smart Grid Technology Articles & Analysis
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* High-precision measurement: Both types of meters utilize advanced measurement chips and technology, ensuring high accuracy and stability under various load conditions, meeting precise measurement requirements for energy ...
The meter provides accurate and reliable measurements of electricity consumption, which is essential for billing and energy management.AMI (Advanced Metering Infrastructure) System:AMI (Advanced Metering Infrastructure) is a smart grid technology that enables the communication between Electronic Power meters and the utility company's ...
Then, they can take measures to reduce energy waste, provide support and guidance for energy conservation.Residential users. With the advent of smart energy meters, electricity data can be feedback to users in real time. ...
In addition, multi-functional energy meters also have higher communication interface performance, which can achieve remote meter reading and data transmission. 7. Smart energy meters At the beginning of the 21st century, with the rapid development of the Internet of Things and smart grid technology, smart energy ...
This blog is co-signed by Morten Petersen, Member of European Parliament. Major cities under water. Unprecedented heat waves. Terrifying storms. These are just a few of the nightmare scenarios evoked by UN Secretary General António Guterres following the publication in April of the latest Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) report on climate science. The findings could ...
Smart grids have been in the headlines for over a decade. Today we’ve finally reached an impasse: our existing energy infrastructure is no longer fit for purpose. It is crumbling under the weight of abnormal weather conditions, demand fluctuations, and momentous changes to baseloads, historically supported by fossil fuels. Just a few short months ago, flash flooding across Europe left many ...
Depending on what part of the world you live in, you are continuously exposed to terms like Grid Edge and Smart Grid. But the narrative is not the same everywhere – some regions speak of supply and demand real time optimization, and others are concerned with reliability and generating useful energy data. Are we all living different electrical grid realities? Possibly. Let’s discuss ...
Smart meters have been around for a while, and there are more and more application scenarios. ...
Rrecent white paper from Navigant Research provides a far-reaching view of the connectivity needs of electric utilities, exploring approaches and technologies, with case studies of projects designed to develop an Energy Superhighway. Over the last decade, with the advent of smart grid technology, utilities have been prompted to ...
As a result, the topic related to optimisation of PHEV/EV charging infrastructure has attracted the attention of researchers from different communities in the past few years. Recently introduced smart grid technology has brought new challenges and opportunities for the development of electric vehicle infrastructure facilities. This paper is a ...
In this paper, we present a quantified system dynamics model simulating the adoption of smart grid technologies such as electric vehicles, PV systems and smart meters in a mid-sized urban system and the resulting impact on the CO 2 emissions. We also analyse the impact of different subsidies on the adoption and calculate the ...
Industry movement seems to point in that direction with the rise of the smart grid, time-of-day pricing, distributed solar, and the electric vehicle. ...
These are awards to be issued by the Association of Demand Response and Smart Grid at its annual meeting in Washington, DC, June 26-28, 2012. The association started the contest this year in recognition of the need by the power industry to engage consumers in the new smart grid technologies. Rather than issuing ...
For a long time ‘clean’ and ‘green’ marked the forward trend in the energy industry. Then came the quest for ‘smart’ energy. And now ‘innovation’ is the buzzword. ...
Fossil fuel subsides create artificial price signals that encourage us to consume rather than develop more efficient technologies. Several government leaders, including President Obama, have pledged to reduce fossil fuel subsides, but change is slow to come. ...
We think we know how smart grid technology will change the utility industry. But do we really? ...
(GE) and Glen Dimplex, a European home heating and appliance company, have signed a joint development agreement under which the two companies will make smart grid technologies available to European homeowners. Under the agreement, Glen Dimplex and GE will develop ways to integrate GE’s Brillion home energy management ...
GE Energy (Atlanta, GA) has moved to strengthen its offering in the smart grid infrastructure market through the acquisition of Australia-based Opal Software, a specialist in data migration and supervisory control and data acquisition (SCADA) simulation. ...
Those Utilities which are to receive Smart Grid funding are concerned on the ability to deliver especially when looking at the bandwidth capabilities needed to tackle the smart grid initiatives, and when faced with a short time frame of three years. ...
As John McDonald tells it, smart grid needs GOLD. And he’s not talking money. GOLD stands for Graduates of the Last Decade, the technology savvy, risk-taking engineers and technicians who may be among the greatest benefactors of the new smart grid movement. ...