Senator Sanders interviews Secretary of Energy Steven Chu, and asks how the federal government views and supports sustainable resources in energy production.
We are lead by a Secretary of Energy that does not know anything about smart grid. He could not put two coherent sentences together addressed the topic.
Sec Sanders's chart is wrong. Nuclear and Coal are firm energy meaning available 24 hours a day. Wind and Solar are non firm meaning available about 30% of the time for wind and even less, 15% for solar. Cost for both are subtantially higher. If you need 100 MW of power you would have to build 300 MW's of wind and 800 MW of solar to reach the same output.
I am very disappointed our country's energy experience and it is no wonder we are in such bad shape.
Good starting point for the business case is to download the "Methodological Approach for Estimating the Benefits and Costs of Smart Grid Demonstration Projects" from the smartgridnews website. Then head on over to the nist.gov site and visit their smartgrid pages for the smart grid technical framework just released and other management considerations.
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