As smart grid projects roll out, there will be key learnings that can help inform your own initiatives. Watch this section for updates and status reports.
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Friends on the supplier side tell us the smart grid market has seen a slowdown, especially in large, multi-million-dollar projects. Apparently Florida Power & Light didn't get the memo. It just launched a $15.6 billion, five-year capital expenditure program. They aren't the only utility spending money, either.
The USDA announced $334 million in loans for rural electric cooperatives. The bulk of it will go to improvements in generation and transmission facilities but about $20 million is pegged for smart grid projects. Click to see where the money's going.
A microgrid installed by Chevron Energy Solutions at a California mega-jail is expected to save $100,000 in energy costs annually and ensure that Santa Rita Jail can sustain power for daily operations and security if its connection to the grid is interrupted. Click for details and a video.
The USDA announced this week that rural electric cooperatives will share about $25 million to advance smart grid technologies in their service areas as well as additional loans to improve generation and transmission. Click to see where the money is going.
BPL Global is one of the companies involved in a project in France's rural Alsace region that will supply end users with electric vehicles via a subscription service. The service is supposed to optimize the impact of EV charging on the grid by aggregating the load and storage capacities of the batteries and managing their charging patterns.
We told you recently about smart grid resistance in Florida, Connecticut and Illinois, adding to the list of states experiencing consumer pushback. Click for an update on the situation in Illinois, where anti-smart grid activists in Naperville just lost a round.
Want to see the future of smart grid storage? Look to China, which just completed a project that uses a 36 MWh energy storage system to integrate 140 MW of wind and solar, making it the country's largest smart grid storage facility and, as SGN Analyst Jesse Berst suggests, a potential template for smart grid storage efforts in the U.S. Click to learn why.
Utilities around the country will want to keep a close eye on the progress of NV Energy's smart grid project. As a piece of that, the Nevada utility is taking an intriguing approach to encourage customers to enroll in demand response and dynamic pricing. Click inside for more on NV Energy's "big carrot" strategy.
There's a lot of smart grid happening this week – from power plant automation and wireless sensor projects to a California initiative to give customers access to their energy use information with the click of a button. Learn more about five very different smart grid projects that caught our attention.
Silver Spring Networks and Cable&Wireless Worldwide have agreed to participate in the Ecoisland Partnership, the UK's largest energy sustainability smart grid project to date. SGN Chief Analyst Jesse Berst introduces the story with some thoughts on what this partnership might say about SSN's European market strategy.
A promising venture is underway in West Virginia with the commercial operation of AES Laurel Mountain – a 98 MW wind farm co-located with grid-scale energy storage that is supplying renewable energy and reserve capacity to the PJM Interconnection. Click inside for more on that plus a look at how wind projects are providing some really big benefits.
Austin's innovative Pecan Street Project is bringing the smart grid home … literally. Pecan Street Inc. is teaming with some industry heavyweights to work on a consumer-focused smart grid built around home apps and consumer electronics. It could be just what the smart grid doctor ordered – a way to get consumers excited about smart grid technologies. Click inside and see if you agree.
Kevin Dasso is senior director of smart grid and technology integration at PG&E and a featured speaker at Smart Energy International, which rolls into San Francisco later this month. Click inside for highlights from our recent conversation about his utility's smart grid initiatives and next steps.
RheinEnergie has selected the ZONOS platform for one of the largest smart grid deployments in Germany to date. TMCnet contributor Cheryl Kaften has details.
Over the next year, Long Island Power Authority – the nation's second largest municipal utility -- will deploy an integrated real-time distribution and outage management system (DMS/OMS) supplied by Efacec Advanced Control Systems. Click inside for more on the project.
A Boulder, Colorado citizens' group has kicked off a campaign to "secede" from Xcel Energy and set up a a municipal utility instead. One issue: dissatisfaction over Xcel's landmark SmartGridCity project in Boulder. Another problem: Xcel is not moving fast enough on carbon reduction for some of the city's ultra-green residents. Click inside for details.
If you thought federal funds for smart grid projects came and went with the Recovery Act, check in with the rural electric cooperatives that are on the receiving end of millions in loans from the USDA for smart grid technologies and improvements to generation and transmission facilities. For instance, Ocmulgee Electric Membership Corp. in Georgia is getting $8.9 million to build 238 miles of new distribution line and improve 33 miles of existing line. Click inside to see who else got money and how they plan to spend it.
The Electric Power Board of Chattanooga, which is building one of the world's most advanced smart grid networks, has teamed with Alcatel-Lucent Bell Labs to develop new techniques to analyze devices and voltage at an unprecedented level of detail. Don't miss this sneak peek at the project, provided by Alcatel-Lucent.
The sun keeps shining on Scott Brusaw's concept of solar roadways to replace asphalt. Click inside for the latest news about the Idaho electrical engineer's innovative project and to watch a video where he describes his vision.
In this third year of EPRI's smart grid demonstration initiative that involves 21 electric utilities around the world, projects are moving from the planning phase into the deployment phase. In this white paper, EPRI shares examples of the people, equipment and work being performed by participating utilties. It's a fascinating peek into a wide variety of smart grid projects under way today.
This catalogue of smart grid projects in Europe is based on a review of 219 projects, accounting for a total investment of about €5.5 billion. The report by the European Commission Joint Research Centre showcases how smart grids can help integrate more renewables, accommodate electric vehicles, give more control to consumers over their energy consumption, avoid blackouts and restore power quickly when outages occur.
We've searched the globe to find five smart grid projects that are blazing new trails. Liquefied air energy storage that's cheaper than batteries. The world's first nationwide, multi-utility smart grid. An early example of automated demand response. And more. Click for details.
This report outlines policy recommendations that build upon the Energy Independence and Security Act of 2007 and the Obama Administration's smart grid investments to foster long-term investment, job growth, innovation, and help consumers save money.
Oklahoma Gas & Electric has asked Arkansas regulators for approval of its proposal to recover costs for a smart meter and related smart grid technology project planned for its western Arkansas service area.
Three parties have appealed an administrative law judge's decision allowing Xcel Energy to bill all of its Colorado customers for the $44.5 million SmartGridCity project in Boulder, which means the final decision is now in the state PUC's hands. The commission is expected to consider the issue in December.
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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