All Posts Tagged With: "smart meters"

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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
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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
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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
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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
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PUC Orders More Transparency for Boulder Smart Grid

The smart grid already allows Xcel to read meters in Boulder remotely, route power around bottle-necked lines and detect power outages without relying on people calling in. But the utility now says it believes the total bill will reach $42.1 million, not including O&M costs.

8Feb2010 | admin | 0 comments | Continued
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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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Smart Grid Funding: A Step, Not a Solution

Like early-childhood education, smart grids are a cause that nobody doesn’t like. But there are many related and necessary developments that must happen before the technology can fulfill its promise to reduce energy demand and lower consumers’ power bills. For one thing, displaying a home’s energy usage doesn’t mean much unless the residents are willing to act on that information.

9Nov2009 | admin | 0 comments | Continued
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Xcel Flips Switch to Make Boulder First
“Smart Grid City”

Already a key objective is being achieved — early results of the smart-grid systems are helping the company predict what equipment will fail and fix it before the power goes out. “We have learned a tremendous amount from our installation of SmartGridCity,” says Xcel’s Tim Taylor.

9Sep2009 | admin | 1 comment | Continued
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Mountain News Round-Up –

>> Rio Blanco County Stands By Energy Fees
>> Holy Cross Energy Adds More Solar Funds
>> Vail Resorts Exceeds Energy Use Reduction Goal
>> Smart Meters Come to Some Aspen Homeowners
>> Gunnison County Gas Case Creates Intrique

29Jul2009 | admin | 0 comments | Continued
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Smart Grid Politics: Opening Statement at D.C. Hearing

“Smart Grid is not the build out of miles and miles of high voltage transmission lines. Instead, what we’re really talking about is a potential transformation in how we use and deliver electricity.”

5Mar2009 | admin | 0 comments | Continued


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