This panel discussion features industry leaders discussing ongoing utility efforts to implement in-home energy technologies and customer applications of the smart grid to empower consumers to better manage their energy. Moderated by NV Energy CEO Michael Yackira, the panel includes: OGE Energy Corporation CEO Peter Delaney, Silver Spring Networks CEO Scott Lang, and Colorado Public Utilities Commission Chairman Ron Binz.
Why would the average consumer really want their quality of life diminished? Mandatory TOU pricing to the consumer is punitive and to shutdown an A/C systems at 3PM is just not necessary! Who really wants to live that way? What is so bad about building clean "peak power" plants to continue our quality of life? The cost of each KWH is now fairly inexpensive for the value received. Of course we should not be wasting electricity and efficiencies on the distribution side can be achieved. Let's keep big brother out of the home and mandatory TOU peak rate pricing off the table.
Michael Goldman - 04/29/2011 - 16:02
Clean Peak Power?
How on earth can we build "clean peak power?" Clean as in large hydro? Clean as in nuclear? We can't build the cleanest technologies like wind and solar and make them useful during peak hours because we can't tell the sun to shine extra or the wind to work extra hard when people are getting home from work, doing laundry, dishes etc.
rebecca Hausheer - 05/10/2011 - 23:06
Demand response is clean
Rebecca - We can use nega-watts instead of mega-watts -- reducing demand at peak times to avoid the need to build new peaking power plants.
Jesse Berst - 05/11/2011 - 08:59
"Living" With Demand Response
OK....reduce demand by using punitive TOU rates.
Let's wear hair shirts and willingly go along with putting off using the clothes dryer, not taking a hot shower, not using a hair dryer, and not running the A/C during peak times. What a way to live. I prefer to create clean energy (nuclear can be made to work), pay for it, and live "first rate" not third rate.
It's an attitude, quality of life thing. Why be so willing to step backwards?
Three new demonstration projects caught our attention - a smart grid effort in Albuquerque's business district, a rapid recovery transformer study in Texas and a trial involving low voltage current sensor technologies in the UK. They also got us to thinking: At this stage in the smart grid build out, if you could design a demonstration project, what would it entail? That's our latest Tuesday Topic; click for the details.
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