In order to meet high electricity demand this summer, PJM Interconnection says it will rely on nearly 185 GW of available installed generation capacity and 11.2 GW of demand response and energy efficiency resources. via Renew Grid: Content / New & Noteworthy / PJM Has Gigawatts Of Demand Response To Lean On This Summer.
Because of its vastness, complexity, and indispensability, the American power grid presents a number of different challenges to state utility commissions, legislators, energy utilities and researchers who wish to study and improve it. As part of this effort, states and the electric utility industry are working to incorporate a greater percentage of clean energy resources Continue reading →
The Army is implementing ways to use energy more efficiently to protect Soldiers, conserve resources and enhance mission capabilities. “Energy is mission critical. It is a vulnerability. It is a risk,” said Katherine Hammack, assistant secretary of the Army for Installations, Energy and Environment. via Army Sees Smart Energy as Mission Critical | Military.com.
With the world’s population expected to exceed nine billion by mid-century, the issue of how to make the most of limited energy resources has risen to the top of the global agenda. There is growing recognition that the smart community is an effective way of tackling this pressing issue. Smart communities are environmentally friendly, economic, Continue reading →
It’s no secret that the U.S. electric grid faces a growing risk of cyberattack as smart grid technologies become more prolific and as the grid becomes more layered. Combatting these cyberthreats is going to place a huge strain on utilities and their financial and personnel resources and will require teamwork and collaboration by players across Continue reading →
Walmart has worked with SolarCity to install solar panels on 12 Walmart stores and Sam’s Clubs throughout Ohio. The solar panel installations will add approximately 6,000,000 kWh of generation production – enough energy to power more than 820 homes – and are expected to supply approximately 5-20 percent of each store’s overall electricity use. “Solar Continue reading →
Demand response technologies, such as smart appliances, thermostats and home energy management systems, could revolutionise our energy consumption. By encouraging consumers to buy controls or appliances that can automatically reduce or shift power use during peak demand periods, demand response (DR) solutions can deliver benefits in many areas, including pricing and grid reliability. In principle this Continue reading →
Demand response technologies, such as smart appliances, thermostats and home energy management systems, could revolutionise our energy consumption. By encouraging consumers to buy controls or appliances that can automatically reduce or shift power use during peak demand periods, demand response (DR) solutions can deliver benefits in many areas, including pricing and grid reliability. In principle this Continue reading →
CPS Energy has formed a new partnership with Silver Spring Networks that will lay the groundwork for the development of smart-grid technologies in San Antonio. The smart-energy network will help CPS Energy better manage its energy resources. via Silicon Valley firm developing smart grid in San Antonio – San Antonio Business Journal.
AutoGrid Systems, a leader in Big Data Analytics for the electricity and energy industry, is proud to announce that it will collaborate with Austin Energy, one of the nation’s leading community owned utilities, to deploy and enhance its Demand Response Optimization and Management System (DROMS). Under the initiative, Austin Energy will initially use DROMS to Continue reading →
AutoGrid Systems, a leader in Big Data Analytics for the electricity and energy industry, is proud to announce that it will collaborate with Austin Energy, one of the nation’s leading community owned utilities, to deploy and enhance its Demand Response Optimization and Management System (DROMS). Under the initiative, Austin Energy will initially use DROMS to Continue reading →
In its Wednesday action, the CPUC voted unanimously that energy storage resources must be considered “along with preferred resources” including energy efficiency, demand response and distributed generation. “We need to move beyond paralysis by analysis with respect to energy storage,” Commissioner Michel Peter Florio said of the action, which will take effect immediately with SCE Continue reading →
After Nemo dropped an unprecedented three feet of snow over Connecticut, making road’s impassable even days later, Connecticut Light & Power and Yankee Gas are part of a coordinated effort to assist the state and the 1.2 million customers the utilities serve. CL&P and Yankee Gas will deploy approximately 50 pieces of snow removal equipment, Continue reading →
Building on earlier discussions of President Obama’s options on energy and the environment, here’s a “Your Dot” contribution from Lee C. Harrison, a frequent comment contributor who’s a senior research associate at the Atmospheric Sciences Research Center of the University of Albany: The United States is one of the most favored nations for combined wind Continue reading →
The OpenADR Alliance, a nonprofit corporation created to foster the development, adoption and compliance of the Open Automated Demand Response (OpenADR) Smart Grid standard, today announced that California investor owned utilities plan to require the OpenADR 2.0 standard for new customers in their Demand Response (DR) Enabling Technology programs in 2013. Pacific Gas & Electric Continue reading →
“Energy independence” is a concept that has become part of the political lexicon and touted as a panacea for a downturn economy. Recently, the concept has morphed into “energy security” which encompasses not only a domestic abundance of energy resources, but freedom from energy market manipulation. Still, there are numerous and conflicting definitions for energy Continue reading →
Open Access Technology International Inc. (OATI), a provider of smart grid products and services, and Kansas City, Mo.-based utility KCP&L have announced the successful completion of acceptance testing of webDistribute, OATI’s distributed energy resource management (DERM) solution, as part of KCP&L’s smart grid demonstration project. According to the companies, the webDistribute solution passed all acceptance Continue reading →
Is an electric car worth it? Probably a common question these days. First of all, it’s worth noting that there are many, many factors to consider when determining whether or not an electric car is worth it to you. For example, some of the issues we won’t even address in the calculations below are: 1) Continue reading →
The world’s water resources are under stress and unequally available. Some regions suffer from drought, other regions from water pollution or worn out distribution networks. For a variety of reasons water stress is a wide spread problem which is only worsening as a growing world population demand their share of food, energy and welfare. The Continue reading →
When the conversation turns to smart grid or grid modernization, typically people discuss the ability to install more distributed resources, work with customers or improve distribution or transmission. Seldom does the conversation revolve around traditional generation that has powered the grid for more than a century. In some cases it seems like the goal of Continue reading →
