The vision of a modernized electric grid didn’t happen overnight. Some of the industry’s brightest minds have been working together tirelessly to develop strategies and champion the cause long before the notion of a Smart Grid made its way into the mainstream.
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A new network of state and regional business groups has formed to promote American innovative energy technologies. While a lot of the right words are being used – electric and plug-in hybrid EVs, energy efficient buildings and renewable energy – SGN Chief Analyst Jesse Berst wants to be sure smart grid is also part of the vocabulary. There's more inside.
Even if you aren’t able to attend this week’s GridWise Global Forum, you can catch some of the smart grid leaders in action. Greentech Media is broadcasting key sessions.
The newly formed Global Smart Grid Federation plans to link Smart Grid organizations around the world to encourage sharing of ideas and best practices to help accelerate Smart Grid deployments.
Metering industry leaders are working to ensure interoperability between smart meters, smart home applications and the Smart Grid overall. Current members of the new IDIS Association include Itron, Landis+Gyr and Iskraemeco.
The Zigbee® Alliance and Wi-Fi Alliance® have agreed to work together on wireless home area networks for the Smart Grid, with an initial focus on Zigbee Smart Energy 2.0.
A new utility industry group has formed to push for fair, transparent regional Smart Grid transmission planning. Can't argue with the mission; we'll take a wait-and-see on how they go about it.
No one wants to invest heavily in the Betamax of Smart Grid architecture and watch while the rest of the industry settles on VHS. But it could happen if you don’t pay attention. Fortunately EPRI program manager and energy industry veteran Matt Wakefield is here with a self-assessment that can help you avoid technology obsolescence and standards pitfalls – before it’s too late.
The Commerce Department’s National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) announced today that John D. McDonald, general manager of marketing for GE Energy’s transmission and distribution business and an IEEE Fellow, will serve as chair of the governing board of the Smart Grid Interoperability Panel, the organization launched by NIST in November to sustain and coordinate development of interoperability standards for a modernized electric power grid.
The GridWise® Alliance, a Smart Grid advocacy coalition, has sent a letter to state regulatory commissions urging them to continue their support of Recovery Act Smart Grid proposals that were not funded by the Energy Department.
In this open letter to state utility commissioners, GridWise Alliance encourages them to move forward with high-quality Smart Grid projects that were not funded by the Recovery Act.
EnerNex and the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) are looking for industry leaders and innovators to join the nation's first Smart Grid Interoperability Panel (SGIP).
The GridWise Alliance is discontinuing its role with GridWeek and instead will develop a conference of its own, the GridWise® Global Forum set for September 2010.
Smart Grids will enable the transition to a new era where clean energy and low-carbon technologies can be optimized. Customers will have greater insight and control over their own consumption. There are barriers and obstacles to the implementation of the Smart Grid though. What are they and how do we address them?
China has an aggressive plan for Smart Grid deployment. In this review of the recent advancements of the Chinese grid system, its Smart Grid ideologies and physical constraints are compared to the US and Europe. The article discusses the role of the Chinese electricity industry in a changing world.
The National Institute for Standards and Technology is expected to announce its Smart Grid standards roadmap during next month’s GridWeek conference in Washington, D.C.
EPRI discusses the ElectriNet concept, the architecture for managing the power grid of the future that will include widespread distributed resources (including demand response, storage and electric vehicles) and a high penetration of renewable generation.
“What is Smart?” is addressed in the context of the National Institute of Standards and Technology’s (NIST) description of an interoperable, standards-based, open architecture electricity supply chain. This document can be used by legislators and regulators to define intelligent functionality and to provide justification of financial incentives, rate cases, and business objectives associated with the modernization and transformation of the national electricity grid.
** How does a Smart Grid evolve? Evolves over time – no single approach. Strategic Drivers. Time. AMR. Energy Markets. SCADA. Real-time. Contingency ...
The technology challenges that the electricity industry will face in achieving a low carbon future will require groundbreaking technology development in a number of strategic areas. EPRI has identified 10 strategic programs that will be the focus of its longer term research efforts from 2009 and beyond.
EPRI seeks to create the knowledge and technologies required to accommodate—and optimize the value of—growing amounts of renewable energy capacity at customer sites and in resource-abundant locations. Improved integration capabilities could help to match intermittent energy production with demand on both geographic and temporal scales and to maintain grid reliability and security even at high levels of deployment.
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.
Several key organizations are working to designate standards for the Smart Grid. Among them are the International Electrotechnical Commission, the American National Standards Institute, the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, the National Institute of Standards and Technology, and the The UCA International Users Group.
Among groups deeply involved in the research and development of a modern electric grid are the Galvin Electricity Initiative, the EPRI IntelliGrid Program, and the Power Systems Engineering Research Center (PSERC).
Learn about industry groups on the forefront of Smart Grid advocacy and education, including GridWise Alliance, GridWise Architecture Council, Demand Response Coordinating Committee, Demand Response and Smart Grid Coalition, and Edison Electric Institute.
We're getting mixed signals about the vitality of the smart grid market. On the one hand, the recent DistribuTECH conference was one of the most successful ever. On the other, a well-known Wall Street analyst recently told his clients that the smart metering sector is "facing several headwinds," including weak regulatory support in the U.S. and delays in European adoption. Taking the pulse of the smart grid industry is this week's Tuesday Topic.
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