 |
Changes in electric power regulation can unleash billion-dollar markets overnight. Or stall progress for years. Explore this section for links to guidelines, resources and case studies.
Results: 169 results found. You are on page 1 of 7 pages.
| |
As the Smart Grid transitions from concept to implementation, the DOE’s team focused on accelerating grid modernization has a new name and some new objectives. Among them: helping with Smart Grid evaluation and implementation planning and Smart Grid business case development. There’s more too; Joe Miller has details. |
|
| |
A bipartisan coalition of 29 governors has proposed recommendations for a renewable energy standard they say would provide 500,000 jobs, effect climate change and help wean the country off foreign oil. They’re also lobbying for a new interstate transmission grid. |
| |
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. |
|
| |
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. |
| |
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. |
|
| |
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. |
|
| |
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. |
|
| |
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%. |
|
| |
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. |
|
| |
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. |
|
| |
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. |
|
| |
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. |
|
| |
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. |
|
| |
The coming Smart Grid will be able to do a lot of things: provide reliable, green, secure electricity and a stable energy future for the country. It's also expected to cost a lot of dollars: about 165 billion of them over the next 20 years, according to the Electric Power Research Institute. Consumer groups and stakeholders are wondering who's footing the bill. |
|
| |
A group of Florida Power & Light employees alleged in two recent letters to their CEO and board that they were ordered to falsify information given to the state's Public Service Commission. |
|
| |
Xcel Energy has asked the Colorado PUC for permission to initiate a pilot pricing program for Boulder's SmartGridCity to test customer acceptance of three different electricity pricing options. If approved by the PUC, the pilot would be launched in April of this year. |
|
| |
Put yourselves in your customers' shoes to get a better understanding of the "creepiness factor" that is making Smart Grid privacy a hot button for consumers. That advice for utilities comes from Susan Lyon and John Roche, members of the Perkins Coie law firm's Privacy and Data Security team. They're back with part two of their privacy tips that demonstrate how seemingly harmless actions can have profound consequences. |
|
| |
Whopping discrepancies between projected and actual costs for Xcel Energy's Boulder, Colorado, Smart Grid project have caught the state PUC's attention. Now the regulators want to do what they do: Regulate it. |
|
| |
Until rules and regs governing Smart Grid privacy are written, utilities have two choices: Bury their heads in the sand and pay the added cost of retrofitting later – or be proactive. In the first of a two-parter, members of a leading law firm’s Privacy and Data Security team tell you how to get ahead of the game. |
|
| |
President Obama's $28.4 billion FY 2011 DOE budget request asks for more money for renewable energy and the Smart Grid, research and innovation and for almost tripling loan guarantees for renewable and nuclear energy. It also whacks over $2.7 billion in tax subsidies for the oil, coal and gas industries. |
|
| |
The charging stations that EV enthusiasts hope will someday replace gas stations along our highways and byways causing a flap in California. Are they quasi-utilities and subject to regulation? Or are they not? The state’s PUC chief thinks they’re not, but the discussion isn’t over yet. |
|
| |
The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission is asking for help as the agency works to be sure its policies are keeping up with the growth of new renewable energy sources and Smart Grid renewable integration efforts. |
|
| |
The Critical Infrastructure Communications Council (CICC) highlighted the spectrum crisis affecting the operations of critical infrastructure industries in a letter to Federal Communications Commission Chair Julius Genachowski. |
|
| |
Today, at a news conference on Capitol Hill, a broad coalition of members of Congress, experts and stakeholders called on Congress and the Obama Administration to create a National Infrastructure Bank (NIB) to help generate the investment needed for infrastructure projects of regional and national importance. |
|
| |
The original electric power grid has been called “the most complex machine on earth,” and the Smart Grid is even more advanced. Yet it is quite manageable if you take it one piece at a time, which is exactly the point of our Smart Grid 101 series. Despite the many forces pushing the world towards grid modernization, this article describes the significant barriers that remain. |
|
|
|
Is it feasible for US to realize DG in home?
|
© 2010 SmartGridNews
|
|
Twitter
Facebook
Linkedin
RSS
I am Chengrui Cai who is a PhD graduate student with major in Power and Energy System. Now my research lies in SmartGrid. As far as I know, one of the important goal of the SmartGrid is to bring distributed generation to homes in US, which aims to install solar panel and small wind turbine in homes. However, ...