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Implementation of the Smart Grid requires sophisticated business and financial planning. This section highlights tools and case studies from the pioneers already leading the way.
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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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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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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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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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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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For so many years we’ve worried about technical challenges related to the Smart Grid build-out. But what if it turns out that consumers – the folks next door and down the street – are what ultimately trips it up? Erica Watson-Currie, who is part of a DOE-funded Smart Grid Demonstration project in California, offers an eye-opening perspective on the socio-behavioral aspect of Smart Grid adoption. You may not like what she has to say, but you should read it anyway. |
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If you missed the High Performance in Data Management Webinar presented by Smart Grid News and Accenture, the complete video archive and slide decks are now posted. Click inside for access - and stay tuned for details on the next webinar in our Lessons from the Real World series. |
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In the Smart Grid space, does it make more sense to be the tortoise or the hare? To be a first mover and charge to the front of the pack, or to lag behind and learn from the leaders' mistakes? Our bloggers Jack Danahy and Andy Bachman are dueling on this one. |
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Today Pike Research announced the launch of its new Smart Grid Advisory Service, a subscription-based information tool that provides market intelligence and strategy insights for companies in the rapidly evolving energy technology sector. The service covers grid automation, smart metering, and energy management applications that are defining the next generation of the electrical grid. |
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The majority of utilities responding to the Pacific Crest Mosaic Smart Grid survey on TOU pricing and demand programs expect them to be implemented by 2012. Click for the full results. |
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Industry pros from Xcel Energy, Accenture and Oracle will share tested, real-world techniques to help utilities prepare for – and benefit from -- the data the Smart Grid will unleash. The free Webinar takes place at 1:30 p.m. Eastern on Wednesday, Jan. 20. Click to read about the stellar panelists, the techniques they will share, and how to register. |
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Put a smart meter in a smart home and watch consumers leap at the opportunity to reduce energy costs. Right? Not necessarily so, suggests market analysis Bill Ablondi of Parks Associates. See the rather disturbing results of his firm's national survey exploring the consumer mindset regarding home energy management. |
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The coming Smart Grid data surge is going to challenge utilities in ways many can't even imagine. If you're not prepared, we can help. Smart Grid News and Accenture are hosting a free, 'High Performance in Data Management' webinar on Jan. 20 featuring utilities and consultants with hands-on experience building Smart Grid data management systems. Jesse Berst explains why this is a webinar you won't want to miss. |
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Ubiquitous electricity has served as the foundation for numerous technological innovations in the modern world, but the electrical grid itself is based on decades-old technology and has suffered from low levels of investment for many years. Now, however, governments and industry leaders are coming together with newfound urgency to drive an overhaul of grid infrastructure and according to a new report from Pike Research, these efforts will yield cumulative global spending of $200 billion on Smart Grid technologies during the period from 2008 to 2015. |
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Why learn everything the hard way? Instead, we should study other industries with large information networks like the Smart Grid's and learn from them. That way we can leapfrog past the mistakes they made and go straight to best practices other industries learned over decades. An expert from the telecommunications industry stops by with two important concepts utilities should borrow for the Smart Grid. |
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In the hoopla over Smart Grid technologies and what it all means for utilities, industry consultant Pamela Lesh suggests we often overlook one of the simplest reasons for making the grid smarter. |
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KEMA is offering insight on and solutions for keeping smart projects on track in the post-stimulus award era. The US is at a point of historic transformation of the electric grid infrastructure. Implementing the smart grid on a national scale poses significant challenges—and opportunities—both for projects selected for a US Department of Energy (DOE) Smart Grid Investment Grant (SGIG), and for those moving ahead with projects without grant funding. |
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One of the most promising ways to overcome regulatory barriers to Smart Grid technologies? In this second part of her three-part series on regulatory challenges, Pamela Lesh suggests an approach that worked for generation and demand-side investments can work for the distribution system too. Find out what she has in mind. |
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A significant amount of new and intimate consumer data will be available through Smart Grid technologies, which puts the onus on utilities and device makers to gain consumer trust. In this exclusive commentary, Jules Polonetsky and Christopher Wolf, co-chairs of the Future of Privacy Forum in Washington, DC, offer valuable insight on what's at stake. |
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Longtime grid watcher Charles W. Newton says many utilities lack a key ingredient when it comes to developing their own unique Smart Grid framework. In the first of two installments, he talks about the value a skilled Smart Grid architect can bring to the table. |
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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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Energy efficiency programs could save 23% in energy use or $1.2 trillion dollars, a new study finds. But there's a catch. |
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