Demand Response Top of Mind with Utilities, New Research Reveals Research from Pacific Crest Securities reveals that demand response has jumped past reliability and deferred construction as the top motivator for Smart Grid deployments. Click to read more and to learn how to get free access to future research. May 6, 2009    Read the Full Story   Join the Discussion

Smart Grid Standards Done Right Face it folks – we’re not going to get the Smart Grid we want (and at the price we can afford) without strong interoperability standards. We need more standards, we need better standards and we need them in a hurry. Here is the first in a series of articles from EPRI expert Joe Hughes on how we get there and how you and your company can benefit. Sep 11, 2008    Read the Full Story   Join the Discussion   6 Active Comment(s)

Texas grid saved by demand response...Florida outage was predictable...California proposes Smart Grid... Texas grid saved by demand response... Florida outage was predictable... California proposes Smart Grid... Pennsylvania should choose advanced meters over rate caps... Hawaii has opportunity to implement Smart Grid... NERC -- grid improvements without building new transmission lines. Mar 5, 2008    Read the Full Story   Join the Discussion

Growing Use of Sensors...BPL or WiFi for the Smart Grid...GIS maps the Smart Grid. Growing use of sensors...BPL or WiFi for the Smart Grid... GIS maps the Smart Grid...Renewable interoperability...U.S. renewable investors. Dec 5, 2007    Read the Full Story   Join the Discussion   16 Active Comment(s)

Bob Galvin asks why can’t power be perfect...Energy Insights Finds the Smart Grid...$3.6B in new fuses and are any of them smart... Bob Galvin asks why consumers do not get the same level of service that they get from other businesses...Energy Insights published study analyzing different strategies utilities are using to tackle critical intelligent grid needs...Freedonia Group study forecasting that U.S. demand for circuit breakers and fuses will grow 3.7% per year through 2011 to $3.6B. Oct 30, 2007    Read the Full Story   Join the Discussion   1 Active Comment(s)

PHEV in the news... More work for GIS, OMS, SCADA vendors... Coal on the way out... Hybrids continue to get a lot of attention. Utilities continue to seek technological upgrades and workforce efficiencies. There are serious arguments for decentralized generation for the Smart Grid. Oct 11, 2007    Read the Full Story   Join the Discussion   1 Active Comment(s)

AMI advances Smart Grid... Progress for demand response and metering...Digital signal processing is key to Smart Grid... Smart Grid…Progress for demand response and metering… Digital signal processing is key to Smart Grid…EUCI conference to emphasize Smart Grid strategies… Grid Interop... Sep 29, 2007    Read the Full Story   Join the Discussion

Smart Grid misconceptions... Selling demand response... NERC CIP--are you ready?... Smart Grid misconceptions… Implementing demand response... CIP compliance -- are you ready?... Grid Interop Forum... Demand response update. Sep 11, 2007    Read the Full Story   Join the Discussion

$1.46B lost per day in LA blackout... Ten Steps to NERC compliance... Crucial technologies for demand response $1.46B lost per day in LA blackout…Ten steps to NERC compliance… Crucial technologies for demand response… Grid InterOP Forum…DR Update. Aug 29, 2007    Read the Full Story   Join the Discussion

Future of Grid is DC?... Energy Islands for storage... ISO New England issues survey Future of Grid is DC?... Energy Islands for storage... ISO NE survey reveals need for DR and grid... DR gets good grade for the summer of 2006... PHEVs can help the environment Aug 14, 2007    Read the Full Story   Join the Discussion

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