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As the Smart Grid moves from concept to reality, it will not be business-as-usual for the world’s electric utilities. The utility sector will change more in the next 10 years than it has in the past 50 years. This section will lead you to the articles, discussions, white papers and resources to prepare for this tsunami of change.
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The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC or Commission) is required to develop the National Action Plan on Demand Response (National Action Plan) as outlined in section 529 of the Energy Independence and Security Act of 2007 (EISA), entitled “Electricity Sector Demand Response.” This draft was prepared after soliciting and reviewing many ideas that reflect the diverse views of a broad range of entities. The draft is now being offered for a final round of comments. |
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What does the IRS ruling this week on Smart Grid grants really mean? Tax attorney and former IRS counsel James Atkinson has produced an analysis for Smart Grid News – and you better take a look. The ruling is not necessarily as favorable as it might appear at first glance. And as Atkinson explains, the IRS’s increasingly narrow approach to an important section of tax code raises concerns for utilities that go beyond the taxability of Smart Grid grants. |
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The disruptive nature of Smart Grid technologies has taken the utility industry by surprise, a new Microsoft study clearly shows. |
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Prompted by a study highlighting the importance of carbon capture and storage (CCS) to meet California's long-term target of reducing its greenhouse gas emissions, a group of energy companies with an interest in advancing CCS today announced the launch of the California CCS Coalition. |
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Energy Secretary Steven Chu laid it on the line for a Stanford U. audience: We're not winning the Smart Grid cleantech race. He pushed for a policy that puts a price on carbon and a carbon cap to provide the direction and assurances utilities and lenders need. |
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A new study gives insights into what utility professionals *really* think about the Smart Grid market. Take a look — you might be surprised at what they're saying. For instance, despite the media focus on smart meters, the utility pros don't think they're so hot. And, of course, there's not enough money in the government pot. |
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The trade association for public power has joined with several consumer and customer groups to argue that RTOs need to publicly disclose metrics to allow people to see how they are doing. |
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Emerging smart grid technology will place important new tools for cutting electricity costs and consumption in the hands of electrical utilities and their customers. It will also, however, significantly increase customer care requirements as newly-educated and curious customers call their provider with an increasing number of questions. |
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Months back our foresighted security bloggers started sounding the alarm about the coming Smart Grid data surge. Now it’s become a hot button industry-wide and Andy Bochman is back with some advice you probably shouldn’t ignore. |
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As the Smart Grid transforms today's utility-based society, IEEE member and PhD candidate Tim Kostyk is back with another thoughtful suggestion for those designing tomorrow’s electricity marketplace. This time his topic is energy equity and why we need to make sure we’re not designing a system of energy haves and have nots. Don't miss this one. |
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New California legislation would double the amount of electricity the state's investor-owned utilities will be required to buy back from customers with rooftop solar arrays. Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger is expected to sign the bill which will raise the rooftop solar cap from 2.5% to 5%. |
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Entergy, a Fortune 500 company with 14,300 employees,
produces and delivers electric power to 2.7 million customers in
Arkansas, Louisiana, Mississippi, and Texas. The company has
captured trillions of records from its supervisory control and
data acquisition (SCADA) system and its more than 320,000
SCADA objects. To better extract value from SCADA data, the
utility deployed a real-time data storage application, called
Pegasus RDS™, which was created by Microsoft® partner
Nobadeer Software, Inc. |
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There’s no escaping the consumer backlash that is putting the Smart Grid at risk. But are we missing the obvious? IEEE member and PhD candidate Tim Kostyk is here with a plea for common sense. He suggests something as simple as a toggle switch or software fix as a design standard could solve the problem. Is it really that easy? Click to read Tim’s piece and join the discussion. |
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If you ask security expert Jack Danahy about Smart Grid privacy challenges, he’ll tell you they aren’t all that different than those that could have been envisioned in other industries (for instance banking or retail), but were overlooked. So as our industry tries to figure out data privacy, he says the easiest mistake to make in these early days will be to insufficiently separate the data elements. Find out why. |
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Pick up concrete, proven methods for dealing with the all-important “people side” of the Smart Grid transformation during our "High Performance in Talent and Organizations" webinar on Wednesday, March 10. You'll learn how your organization can find and retain the smart people you need for successful Smart Grid deployments. (And it's free!) |
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Members of the American Public Power Association's (APPA)Legislative & Resolutions Committee today approved 11 resolutions at its annual Legislative Rally, including endorsing policies to improve wholesale market transparency and expressing concern regarding regulation of over-the-counter (OTC derivatives markets.
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A new electric utility survey says capital spending on infrastructure has dropped for two years straight for the first time since the 1930s. The Black & Veatch survey also found that utilities believe nuclear energy is the best bet for meeting environmental rules and cutting emissions. |
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Utilities have learned a lot about how to reduce energy consumption with smart meters, but they're leery of riling up consumers — and taking a gentler and less effective approach than what they actually see as the most efficient solution. |
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This report presents a comprehensive framework for estimating the benefits and costs of Smart Grid projects and a step-by-step approach for making these estimates. The framework identifies the basic categories of benefits, the beneficiaries of these benefits, and the Smart Grid functionalities that lead to different benefits and proposes ways to estimate these benefits, including their monetization. The report covers cost effectiveness evaluation, uncertainty, and issues in estimating baseline conditions against which a project would be compared. The report also suggests metrics suitable for describing principal characteristics of a modern Smart Grid to which a project can contribute. |
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Working recommendations meant to bring the innovative force of broadband to healthcare, education, energy and the environment, government, public safety and homeland security, job training, and small business were unveiled today at a meeting of the Federal Communications Commission. Click to download the FCC press release that discusses Smart Grid implications. |
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The authors of this white paper argue that policy makers need to recognize that current Smart Grid policy is not aligned with the reality of the residential energy management marketplace, and it needs to be changed at both the state and federal levels. The paper presents policy principles the authors believe are needed to achieve a robust consumer market for energy management, which is needed to achieve national Smart Grid residential energy management objectives such as peak load demand response. |
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We’re hearing more and more about consumer angst and the Smart Grid – and we’re pretty sure it’s not going to go away on its own any time soon. So what’s the solution? IEEE member and PhD candidate Tim Kostyk says we need to start by asking better questions – and then bake the results into requirements planning. See if you think he's on the right track. |
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The Treasury Department and the Internal Revenue Service have determined that Smart Grid stimulus grant awards are taxable. The National Association of Regulatory Utility Commissioners thinks it's a really bad idea. |
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Dominion Virginia Power extends a smart meter field test before going all out with a $600 million rollout. Duke Energy scales back a $450 million rollout after getting slapped by Indiana regulators. And PG&E's smart meter program, which has been taking punches from fighting mad customers for months, gets audited courtesy of regulators. |
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Given that so much of the Smart Grid “smarts” involves new applications and other advances in software, security expert Andy Bochman says an important way to think about NERC CIP and your organization is to focus on your software assets. With compliance looming, you don't want to miss this one. |
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