Toronto Hydro is installing smart transformers and equipment. Among the benefits are real-time reports on performance which allow action to be taken immediately, tracking illegal power use, and isolating problems to a single household rather than shutting down power for thousands.
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What we need Instead, what we have are confusing, sometimes obstructionist regulations, utilities still wed to outmoded ways of doing things and, I think, no killer app – no compelling reason for consumers to demand it. Yet. ComEd of Chicago explains. If Smart Grid technology had been in place, here’s how it would have minimized the impact of the storm: ComEd would have known customers were out of power without them having to call us. Technology would have pinpointed outages allowing us to dispatch crews more quickly to restore service. Digital automation [...] OSHA The average big electric utility is a sprawling network that is buzzing with energy but contains surprisingly little data about that energy. Managers at utilities can’t “see” very deep into the thousands of substations and relay units that make up the electrical grid. Some utilities still learn about a neighborhood electrical outage not [...] Listen to the show on BlogTalkRadio or on iTunes. With Steve Hynd of Newshoggers, Josh Mull (@joshmull) and myself. Topics were: Republican presidential race The Republican field is jumbled with no obvious choice. The candidates will all endorse the Ryan Plan in the primary and whoever gets the nomination will then run away from it. Retirees [...] The Bonneville Power Administration may be forced to tell wind farms to shut down because high water levels are creating more hydro power than the grid can handle. Extra wind power would just make things worse. So wind farms may have to shut down. If we had a smart grid that could store energy [...] The World Resources Institute reports on the growing problem with our electrical grid, which was never meant to handle renewable energy, where generation starts and stops quickly and comes from all directions too. Renewable energy resources are location constrained and often available only in remote areas. Their energy must therefore be transported via connected [...] Yes, Exxon. One reason is that once installed, wind has no fuel costs (the same is true for solar, geothermal, and hydro) while coal, gas, and nuclear do. Over time, this cuts costs dramatically. However – and this is a big However – this chart from ExxonMobil notes at the bottom that their wind and [...] A smart grid network, Cerf said, will be highly dependent on “people’s willingness to connect in this way,” and “this is not going to be something that can be forced on anyone no matter how hard we try.” The smart grid is about extracting and sharing information in the best way possible to manage resources, [...] Via Smartgridnews, who says The idea of a national electricity smart grid — a system that links your home’s electrical system and appliances to a national data network — is a hot topic in energy conservation circles but have we really thought out the privacy implications? For instance, could your jacuzzi rat you out? [...] |  | ||||
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