Some start-ups hope so. Me too.
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Cypress Envirosystems retrofit 6,000 feet of office space with smart grid thermostats in two hours with no disruption to employees or opening up walls. The new thermostats are controlled centrally and interface with smart grid technology. “For the Smart Grid to reach its full potential, we will need smart buildings to talk to it. [...] Former Director of the CIA James Woolsey recently described the U.S. electricity transmission system as ODAV: Ostrich-Designed and Awesomely Vulnerable. Four challenges stand out: (1) Teaching consumers how to take advantage of the Smart Grid’s capabilities; (2) Making the Smart Grid safe from cyber attacks while keeping it open at both the distributor and ratepayer [...] Smart grid could reduce emissions 12%. Imagine if home appliances worked like a Tivo with customer preferences built into it. Third parties, with customer permission, could monitor usage and bid on services. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bC5a3Wv2OsQ&feature=player_embedded The Pecan Street Project [in Austin TX] is a community-wide collaboration to fully reinvent the energy delivery system. It’s more than a smart grid project. Pecan Street is an ambitious effort to empower customers and innovators to use the energy system in new ways while making energy cleaner, water usage more efficient and the [...] Green Chip Stocks details some of the new ways to store electricity. This is an important feature for the creation of a smart grid. Currently, supply must always equal demand, as there’s no place to store it. This is inefficient and wasteful. With stored energy, power plants can create energy at night, when demand is [...] Synchrophasors sit in electricity substations and report on conditions on the lines. The current new breed of synchrophasors reports back 30 times a second rather than every 2-4 seconds as the older ones do. Better yet, it will report back with a time stamp, which it will generate by listening for a GPS signal, so [...] WhiteHouse.gov Speaking at Florida Power and Light’s DeSoto Next Generation Solar Energy Center, President Barack Obama today announced the largest single energy grid modernization investment in U.S. history, funding a broad range of technologies that will spur the nation’s transition to a smarter, stronger, more efficient and reliable electric system. Excellent news. Our ancient [...] Researchers from MIT, Carnegie Mellon University, and the networking company Akamai recently published results from a study that suggest big Internet companies could save up to 40 percent on their electricity bills by using an algorithm to send Internet traffic to data centers where electricity is less expensive. Wow. Imagine what such a smart grid [...] Petra Solar SunWave UP series. Smart grid interactive solar system And now their biggest utility is putting smart grid solar panels on 200,000 phone poles. Petra Solar was awarded the contract, all part of New Jersey’s plan to put solar any place it fits, giving tax breaks for doing so, with a goal of [...] |  | ||||
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