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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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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. |
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The Utilities Telecom Council has created two new positions to meet its member utilities’ expanding focus on smart grid technical standards and spectrum issues and has assigned to two senior executives to lead these key efforts. |
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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. |
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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. |
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The U.S. Demand Response Coordinating Committee (DRCC) today announced that a National Town Meeting on Demand Response and Smart Grid will be held in Washington, DC, on June 23-24. |
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The Electric Drive Transportation Association (EDTA) today outlined an action plan for Congress and the Obama Administration to build on their historic commitment to electric vehicle technology and accelerate the growth of hybrid, plug-in, battery and fuel cell vehicles in the U.S. |
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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. |
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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. |
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Earlier today, at the invitation of the House Democratic Caucus, representatives of the Demand Response and Smart Grid Coalition(DRSG) presented their views on smart grid development, job creation, and economic recovery to over 200 Members of the House at the body’s annual Issues Retreat. |
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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. |
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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. |
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The SAE 2010 World Congress will be reengineered with a sharper focus on technical and innovative content when it convenes April 13-15, 2010, at Cobo Center in Detroit. Host Company for the event is Ford Motor Company and the Tier One Strategic Partner is Magna International Inc. |
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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). |
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The Peak Load Management Alliance (PLMA) today announced the new officers of the Alliance for the 2010 – 2011 term of office. The election was held at the PLMA Fall 2009 Conference, “Practical Demand Response for a Complex Future,” in Chicago, Illinois, October 20-21, 2009. |
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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. |
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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?
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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. |
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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. |
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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. |
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“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. |
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** How does a Smart Grid evolve? Evolves over time – no single approach. Strategic Drivers. Time. AMR. Energy Markets. SCADA. Real-time. Contingency ... |
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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.
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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. |
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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. |
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Demand Response and Smart Grid Coalition’s overview of why it supports the Smart Grid. |
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Re:Mr Andersons concerns
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