smart grid technology Articles
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GE, Glen Dimplex to team on smart grid in Europe
General Electric Co. (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 technologies into Glen Dimplex’s home heating ...
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A sociotechnical systems model for smart-grid adoption in mid-sized urban environments
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 effectiveness regarding public and private spending on these ...
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GE expands smart grid offering through acquisition of Opal Software
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. “Opal Software’s products and project management services are integral to the delivery of GE Energy projects,” said Matt ...
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Optimisation of PHEV/EV charging infrastructures: a review
Plug-in hybrid electric vehicle (PHEV) or electric vehicle (EV) has the potential to facilitate the energy and environmental aspects of personal transportation, but face a hurdle of access to charging system. The charging infrastructure has its own complexities when it is compared with petrol stations because of the involvement of the different charging alternatives. As a result, the topic ...
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Sainsbury’s to cut energy costs with new intelligent building
Retail giant will start using a smart-grid system at Kent store on Wednesday as part of another green initiative to cut carbon emissions. Sainsbury’s will start testing a smart-grid system at its new Hythe store in Kent on Wednesday, in an attempt to cut its carbon emissions and reliance on the grid at times of peak demand. The company said the smart grid system technology was a ...
By Vital Energi
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White Paper: Energy Superhighway Will Be Crucial to Successful Delivery and Management of Energy Services
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 invest in a wide array of networking technologies for a variety of ...
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Smart Grids – The Governmental Approach
Scott Blake Harris is the General Council for the US Department of Energy, and has recently spoken out at the NGU US summit (hosted by GDS International). He was nominated in the position by President Barack Obama in March 2009, and was confirmed by the United States Senate in May 2009. He focused his address on the $4 billion investment into smart grids and renewables across the US. Scott ...
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Wanted: GOLD for smart grid
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. While most recent college graduates face dismal employment prospects, for the GOLD kids, the job market is, well, golden. ...
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Smart Grid needs a Facebook
We think we know how smart grid technology will change the utility industry. But do we really? Take a look at this documentary made in 1969. It’s a view of how the world perceived the coming Internet (It’s also a pretty amusing look at how sexist our society still was at that point.) http://andrewsullivan.theatlantic.com/the_daily_dish/2010/04/before-the-internet.html. While the ...
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Is green energy our new plastics industry?
If The Graduate were written today, Mr. McGuire’s career tip to Benjamin probably would have been “green,” rather than “plastics.” But it’s likely Benjamin would have responded in the same quizzical way: “Just how do you mean that, sir?” It was difficult to envision the vast number of new products, businesses and careers that would emerge from the plastics industry following World War II. The ...
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What’s undermining energy efficiency?
Exhilaration swept through the energy efficiency industry as city after city, state after state and nation after nation set aggressive energy saving goals over the last several years. But with target dates nearing in certain jurisdictions, a more sober attitude now permeates. Some governmentsare asking: Are we reaching too high? A global reportissued this week by PwC, which looks into the minds ...
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The utility of the future? Think shopping mall
The energy world is about to turn upside down. With the coming of smart grid, the electricity consumer becomes the electricity seller; the passive home appliance becomes the active energy manager; the grid repairman becomes the grid itself. Such an upheaval means that the energy world needs to start thinking about a new business model, says a recent report by IBM Global Business Services ...
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Opportunities for energy innovators
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. It’s easy to see why. As Americans, we believe our ability to innovate sets us apart in today’s international market. Sure China can manufacture computers and cell phones ...
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Energy innovation: Snails and Griddies
Ask most people to describe vanguard energy technology, and they’ll name LED lights, certain forms of solar energy and new electric storage methods. But how about this – generating energy from a living body? The Journal of the American Chemical Society is reporting a “real-life scientific tail of the first electrified snail.” Researchers have placed a fuel cell in a snail ...
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7 Transformations The Past and Present of Energy Meters
The development history of energy meters as devices for measuring electrical energy consumption can be traced back to the end of the 19th century and the beginning of the 20th century. On May 20, 1875, seventeen countries signed the famous "Metric Convention" in Paris, France. This was an agreement by the government to adopt the International System of Units and ensure consistent measurement ...
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‘Energy democracy’ becomes more real
Will new technologies democratize energy much the way the Internet did information? 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. Together these technologies offer a vision of a less centralized energy system, one where communities and households ‘vote in’ or shape the electric ...
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Can energy meters save energy?
Energy meters themselves do not possess energy-saving features. However, they are capable of accurately measuring a user's electricity consumption. Real-time monitoring and statistical analysis of electricity data can help users understand their electricity usage patterns and current energy consumption. Whether residential users, industrial users, or power operators analyze the electricity ...
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Energy saving solution from YTL metering
Smart meters have been around for a while, and there are more and more application scenarios. Commonly used scenarios include ordinary metering, electric vehicle charging piles, industrial automation, power quality, in addition to electrical protection, process detection and control, and so on. And today’s focus is on the role of smart meters in energy saving and consumption reduction. ...
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Smarter grids, appliances, and consumers
More and more utilities are beginning to realize that building large power plants just to handle peak daily and seasonal demand is a very costly way of managing an electricity system. Existing electricity grids are typically a patchwork of local grids that are simultaneously inefficient, wasteful, and dysfunctional in that they often are unable, for example, to move electricity surpluses to areas ...
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Obama, energy efficiency & accountability
Not once, but twice President Obama mentioned the importance of energy efficiency in his state of the union address January 27. His support for the resource is no surprise; his administration has channeled $20 billion toward energy savings programs. Obama made clear that going into his second year his support will not waver.“I know that there are those who disagree with the overwhelming ...
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