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Many utilities cannot make Smart Grid investments until they have approval from their regulators. And even unregulated utilities must ensure that their Smart Grid outlays make financial sense. This section catalogs ideas and resources for making the all-important cost-benefit analysis.
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KEMA (www.kema.com) today released the first independent guidebook on integrating wide-scale energy storage in the electric power infrastructure. Volume two of KEMA's Utility of the Future series, "The Promise of Energy Storage," explores the issues and questions surrounding the rapidly advancing technology. The guidebook provides a broad assessment of the electricity storage field and the latest thinking about applications. It also describes how to assess when there is a good business case for storage and when there is not -- and examines the implications of including storage in grid design and operation, the economics of storage, and the policy issues being raised. |
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New study results released today by Jackson Associates indicate that many utilities and state agencies are struggling to evaluate the cost effectiveness of smart grid initiatives with unreliable elasticity-based models and that much of the uncertainty surrounding estimated financial benefits can be removed by applying agent-based models. |
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Physicians for Social Responsibility today released a groundbreaking medical report, "Coal's Assault on Human Health," which takes a new look at the devastating impacts of coal on the human body. By examining the impact of coal pollution on the major organ systems of the human body, the report concludes that coal contributes to four of the top five causes of mortality in the U.S. and is responsible for increasing the incidence of major diseases already affecting large portions of the U.S. population. |
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Cost remains the top barrier to Smart Grid adoption according to industry leaders who participated in the Pacific Crest Mosaic Smart Grid survey. But check out what other barriers made the list and how they ranked. |
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A new study, 'Smart Grid Economics: Making the Business Case for Smart Network Technology,' says the typical electric utility can directly benefit from Smart Grid technologies to the tune of at least $110 million annually |
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A typical electric utility can expect smart grid technology to generate at least $110 million per year through a wide range of benefits, from increased rate of return to lowered carbon emission to new jobs creation, according to a landmark analysis released today by the Utilities Telecom Council (UTC). The study, Smart Grid Economics: Making the Business Case for Smart Network Technology, prepared for UTC by consulting firm The Shpigler Group, calculated the economic impacts of a comprehensive smart grid deployment for a typical utility that installs one million electric meters. |
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Still another report says the U.S. needs to get going on all fronts to address grid issues. Which means more support for the Smart Grid. |
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With the worldwide power and utilities sector and public policy makers focused on the environment and power supply, interest has increased on the secure development of the Smart Grid and other critical infrastructures for power and utilities companies.In order to assist with the development of secure software, this document focuses three key resources – Process Guidance, Threat Modeling Tool, and the Optimization Model. |
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This paper proposes a framework of policies to guide the future development of America’s electric transmission grid so that the electric power industry will be able to serve more effectively the changing needs of the U.S. economy and society. A factual overview of the American electric power industry, with a focus on high voltage transmission is provided. Public policies affecting the electric industry and, specifically, the transmission grid are summarized, and a range of proposals for legislative and regulatory policy reform are analyzed. Finally, a set of recommendations is provided which would accelerate innovation and the evolution of an “end-to-end smart” transmission grid in America. |
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**Distribution SCADA. AMI technology and realizing the smart grid. AMI technology will play a significant role in realizing the ... |
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Cisco outlines reasons for NIST to adopt the Internet Architecture as the framework for smart grid interoperability by adding thesuite of IP standards and protocols to its list of Smart Grid Interoperability Standards.
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This article from Mellon University’s Department of Engineering and Public Policy enumerates the many new facets of the Smart Grid from the consumer end, the transmission and distribution component, and the issues related to security and regulation. |
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**The second report (still in draft and subject to revision) examines more than 250 estimates of energy efficiency potential derived from 19 studies that cover all or parts of the U.S. South. The report ends with the following conclusion: “Analysis of published studies of the potential for energy efficiency improvements in the South suggests that a reservoir of cost-effective opportunities exists. In the South as a whole, a 2 percent annual reduction in energy consumption is technically feasible. Approximately three-quarters of that amount is cost-effective. A 1 percent reduction per year approximates the maximum achievable estimate assuming implementation of aggressive policies, and a 0.5 percent per year reduction could be achieved with modest policy interventions. Since electricity consumption in the South is expected to grow at approximately 0.84 percent annually between 2007 and 2020, the maximum achievable potential could offset the forecast growth in demand in the region as a whole. For natural gas, which is expected to experience no significant growth in consumption in the South, the achievable potential for energy savings could produce significant reductions in consumption over time. Of course, states with more rapidly growing electricity and natural gas demand will need to either push harder on energy efficiency or expand their energy resources.” |
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** How does a Smart Grid evolve? Evolves over time – no single approach. Strategic Drivers. Time. AMR. Energy Markets. SCADA. Real-time. Contingency ... |
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Answering the question to how we build the efficient, secure, cost-effective power grid of tomorrow, this presentation illustrates and discusses all the components of the Smart Grid, in detail. |
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This 291-page document identifies issues and proposes priorities for developing standards for the Smart Grid. Prepared by the Electric Power Research Institute on behalf of the National Institute of Standards and Technology, it is the culmination of phase one of NIST's three-phase plan to expedite standards development. It contains a thorough overview of every activity and actor relevant to the Smart Grid, as well as providing the foundation for the all-important standards debates that will take place over the next few years. Although we hate to recommend something this poorly written, this document should probably be required reading for anyone who needs a full understanding of the Smart Grid. |
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The purpose of this white paper is to help facilitate nationwide progress toward the deployment of dynamic pricing of electricity by summarizing information that may assist utilities and regulators who are assessing the business case for advanced metering infrastructure (AMI). It highlights five dynamic pricing programs that have been implemented in the U.S. and surveys the progress toward deploying AMI. |
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EPRI funded a successful project to identify, evaluate, and accelerate postcombustion CO technologies. This effort, which is nearing completion, led to the valuation of over seventy CO capture processes. |
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In many cases, materials that date to the first half of the 20th century remain in components on the power delivery system. As equipment fails or reaches the end of its life, new equipment is installed that generally employs incremental material improvement. But long product cycles are an obstacle to adopting new materials. Although nano engineering and other advanced techniques has offer the hope of new materials, the technology is umproven. Current silicon-based technologies not sufficiently robust to be cost-effective in many applications, and some materials are potentially damaging to the environment. This study addresses this situation by outlining EPRI’s Materials –Delivery and End-Use program, which is designed to aggressively invest in early-stage materials technologies that will be important for the future of the electric power enterprise, and by funding seed research in materials areas that will be critical in the future. |
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This is a three-page summary of performed by Freeman, Sullivan consultants. It concerns 10,000 customers who signed up for PG&E's residential SmartRate critical peak pricing tariff in 2008. It compares the load impact estimates with estimates based on the demand models developed for California's Statewide Pricing Pilot (SPP). The demand models estimated from the SPP pilot allow load impact estimates to be made that adjust for the differences between different customers in different geographies. Differences in the two estimates were quite similar in each hour. These findings should provide confidence that load impact estimates based on pricing pilots will in fact be realized if similar tariffs are actually deployed. |
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Allegheny Power’s program to contract with a “distributed generation (DG) manager” to “harvest” existing installed standby generation capacity and recruit future generation resources. The program is focused on reducing demand in the small and large commercial and industrial, and governmental customer sectors, by deploying customer “non-utility” generation resources. |
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One of the industry’s best-known thinkers suggests four approaches that will help utilities create a clear, step-by-step plan to access Smart Grid benefits. Click to read advice from IEEE Fellow John McDonald, currently GM of Marketing for General Electric, who explains how to develop a strong business case, how to pace investment, and more. |
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** White Paper on Large-Scale Integrated Smart Grid SolutionsFile - command and control infrastructure in achieving overall system ... d) Monitoring and supervisory control: The proposed smart grid solution needs to provide ... |
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ACCIONA has constructed over 1,100 eco-efficient homes, and has built the first Zero Emissions commercial building in Spain.This document is a case study of that Zero Emissions. |
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A 24-page presentation by a staffer from the Oregon Public Utility Commission that defines the Smart Grid and explains the driving factors for the change, the benefits and the challenges. Also details advanced metering progress in Oregon and describes PGE's 850,000-meter AMI initiative, including the basis for its rate case. |
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