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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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Everybody likes a good contest, right? Pacific Northwest National Laboratory is putting one together for DOE that will focus on developing better, cheaper wireless metering systems. Interested? Click inside for details.
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It's going to be a very hot summer and peak electricity demand is expected to jump as a result, particularly in the West. The North American Electric Reliability Corporation is warning that Texas and California will see tight supplies – and they will need to closely monitor plants and systems.
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Silver Spring Networks has announced numerous efforts to help municipal and cooperative utilities make systems integration easier and deployment of smart grid technologies faster. Silver Spring is taking advantage of the MultiSpeak specification for interoperability to help those utilities reduce costs and time associated with complicated systems integration efforts.
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Siemens, already a key player in smart grid hardware, has announced its intent to do the same in smart grid software. We share some of the progress the company has made during its entry into the software sector.
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As many grid suppliers and utilities have found out, good power engineers are in short supply. One solution that has been catching on for many suppliers and utilities is to develop a financial relationship with universities that have strong power engineering programs. Read the story to find out how it works.
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Germany has the most solar PV capacity of any country in the world, but the result has been far from an economic success. Consumers pay high prices for electricity now and will pay a whole lot more when the strain of all those renewables forces the country to address their impact on the region's electric grid.
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It's certainly an interesting application of a not entirely new concept: training "counter-hackers" to not only keep cybercriminals out but to make it so expensive and painful they may not try it again. The University of Charleston is training National Guardsmen to do just that, and big corporations are hiring their own counter-hackers. Are we at the point where larger electric utilities will need to follow suit?
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District energy and co-generation have yet to catch on in North America as they have in countries like Denmark where their energy efficiency is appreciated. But now that district energy is being thought of as a way to increase resilience, utilities should at least take a second look at getting involved.
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As EnerNOC's Brad Davids makes clear, the time to determine the best demand response dispatch strategy is before it is needed. He shares why and how a little time and solid data and analytics can help ensure that dispatch strategy is the right one.
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A collaborative effort by the industry's best and brightest has produced a summary white paper detailing economic and regulatory issues and concerns in dealing with distributed energy. It's a challenging topic to be sure, but the white paper includes specifics and observations that make it a valuable contribution to the distributed energy discussion.
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ConEd is taking the approaching hurricane season seriously. The utility will spend more than $1 billion for upgrades to strengthen its system. And other utilities hit hard by Hurricane Sandy are conducting similar upgrades to harden their grids.
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Many of the country's more "traditional" utilities are shaking off their reluctance and seriously considering getting into the rooftop solar business. Once considered a threat to the conventional utility business model, solar is looking like a more attractive option in an era of slow growth in energy demand and aging coal-fired generation facilities.
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A GridSTAR net zero energy demo project at Philadelphia's Navy Yard raises an interesting point: if it becomes net positive, could that be an incentive for other organizations to separate themselves from the main electrical grid?
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The New York Power Authority plans to spend $30 million to upgrade its transmission system in central and northern New York. We hope the upgrade initiative will encourage other jurisdictions to do the same.
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If you hadn't thought of AT&T as a smart grid systems integrator, it may be time to change your way of thinking. The communications giant is providing Tennessee's Duck River Electric cooperative with not just AMI, data management capabilities and connectivity, but also full system integration and other smart grid applications.
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