Tag smart grid

New energy storage technologies

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…

Synchrophasors. For a smarter grid

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…

Obama announces $3.4 billion grants for smart energy grid

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…

Energy-aware Internet routing coming soon

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…