All Posts Tagged With: "smart grid"
Will Decreasing Demand Decimate the
Electric Power Industry?
Read the forecasts from the energy agencies and they all presume that consumption per capita will continue about the same. But consider these trends …
6Sep2011 | admin | 0 comments | Continued
Smart Grid Consumers: New Surveys Reveal What They Think Now
The numbers are different, but two smart grid consumer surveys agree on the bottom line: Most consumers are still in the dark. Both surveys found that most are concerned about their energy use, but know little about emerging energy management systems.
9Jun2011 | admin | 0 comments | Continued
Analysis: Payoff for Transmission Infrastructure Investment is Jobs and More Jobs
The WIRES study says it will help drive economic recovery and set the stage for the electric economy of the 21st century. But Ceal Smith in this week’s OUTPOST column below presents an opposite viewpoint, namely that grid expansion is already outpacing energy demand.
7Jun2011 | admin | 0 comments | Continued
EPRI Does the Math on Total Smart Grid Cost
(and it’s a lot)
The price tag for a fully functional smart grid in the U.S. could run from $338 billion to $476 billion, the Electric Power Research Institute (EPRI) says in a new report. Wow! But the bonus is that the ROI in terms of benefits could be between $1.3 trillion and $2 trillion.
8Apr2011 | admin | 0 comments | Continued
White Paper Identifies Smart Grid Trends in 2011
and Beyond
Some of the trend predictions include: smart grid stimulus funds will finally show a positive impact; demand response business transformation will continue to speed up and security will be the biggest worry.
17Dec2010 | admin | 0 comments | Continued
Spirae, Xcel Energy Part of New DOE
Grid Initiative
The Fort Collins-based company is participating in a project for an automated, secure, and self-healing electric distribution management system, while Xcel is helping to develop and demonstrate a real-time monitoring, control, and health management system to improve grid reliability and efficiency.
28Nov2010 | admin | 1 comment | Continued
Public Protests Against Smart Grid!
The biggest problem is that there is no price-driven incentive for the public to pay any attention to the use of a smart meter. If you really want folks to load up their clothes washer to run at 4 AM when the the demand for electricity is presumably lower than at 4 PM, then you might want to consider discounting the price/kwh to the tune of 50% or so.
17Nov2010 | admin | 3 comments | Continued
New Energy Entrepreneurs Vie for NREL Growth Forum Spot
Every aspect of new energy technology was covered from carbon sequestration to ground breaking home geothermal systems and next level wind analytics. In the end the winning presentations belonged to Algal Scientific Corporation, Ener-G-Rotors Inc, and Energy Materials Corporation.
31Aug2010 | admin | 0 comments | Continued
How Big Biz Will Drive Cleantech
Recognizing that I get into trouble for pitching the role of the world’s major corporations in driving cleantech innovation and - supposedly - ignoring the role of fledgling companies, let me show you how it’s working.
22Jul2010 | admin | 0 comments | Continued
U.S. Business Leaders Call for Revolution in Energy Technology Innovation
The key, they say, is reforming and strengthening U.S. investment in energy innovation — the most critical element to securing America’s future. This isn’t just another clean energy advocacy group. Members range from Microsoft’s Bill Gates and Chad Holliday, former CEO of DuPont, to GE’s Jeff Immelt and Lockheed Martin’s former chair, Norm Augustine.
1Jul2010 | admin | 0 comments | Continued
Did the DOE Bet Wrong on Smart Grid?
Consider Xcel Energy’s SmartGridCity project in Boulder. A couple years ago the utility began deploying a wide variety of smart grid technologies similar to those funded by ARRA to the city’s 50,000 residents. Now the project costs have ballooned almost three times from an initial estimate of $15 million to more than $40 million, and Xcel has had to raise customer rates to help fund the project.
24Jun2010 | admin | 1 comment | Continued
SmartRegs Gets Its Legs; Takes Some Heat
Boulder City Council began its first reading of the much-discussed SmartRegs proposal at their meeting on May 18.
In witness of an over-capacity meeting hall, Mayor Susan Osborne said it was, “the most important issue we’ll tackle this year, and the most complex.”
HB 10:1001 — Colorado’s
“Retail Distributed Energy” Game Changer
This is a big step! It means that no longer will our state’s investor-owned utilities be focused on 250-plus MW wind faclities to meet their RES requirements. They will of necessity be required to encourage retail distributed generation by the people who are consuming it, not just huge generation companies.
14Mar2010 | admin | 1 comment | Continued
GridPoint and SRE Sign Acquisition Agreement
Arlington, VA-based GridPoint, Inc. and Standard Renewable Energy (SRE) have announced that the companies have entered into an agreement for GridPoint to acquire SRE. GridPoint expects to close the transaction in the first quarter of 2010, subject to closing conditions.
2Feb2010 | admin | 0 comments | Continued
Is the Sustainability Revolution Sustainable?
It’s July 20, 1789. Smith and Jones, two English businessmen, are walking down the street. Smith turns to Jones and says, “How about this Industrial Revolution we’re having?” Sounds implausible? Of course it does. Because the industrial revolution was not really a revolution.
1Feb2010 | admin | 0 comments | Continued
Front Range Corridor Becoming Smart Grid Power Player –
Latest News: Power Tagging Lands Grant for eGrid
Said the Governor: “Power Tagging further extends the Colorado smart grid ecosystem with NIST, NREL and the most progressive green tech and smart grid projects in the country. Our state is creating the technologies that will allow all utilities to deliver power more reliably and affordably.”
24Nov2009 | admin | 0 comments | Continued
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