The increase in the number of blackouts have raised questions on the facts of such events and the vulnerability of interconnected power systems, when operate outside their design limits. The blackout that occurred on August 14, 2003 was recorded to …
Category: Smart Grid
Dealing with Opposition to Smart Meters
Sadly, progress in smart grid is slow and incredibly painstaking. In particular, there are people who oppose smart meters, largely on the basis of health issues (i.e., the scientifically unfounded claim that the meters emit dangerous levels of radiation), as …
Energy Efficiency Is Just One Aspect of a Smart Home
I had a magnificent lunch today at a French Cajun place in Santa Barbara with a new business contact. This gentleman runs one of the units of the Nikola Tesla Foundation in Los Angeles, focusing on connected homes. His main area …
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From Guest Blogger Brian McGowan: Defection from the Grid?
There have been several articles about defecting from the grid talked about here as well as reshaping what the grid means to us and what it should now do for us. While defecting from the grid may not seem likely, …
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Smart Grid Concepts from the U.S. Department of Energy
Here’s a video just posted on the ARPA-E (Advanced Research Projects Agency – Energy) YouTube video channel, presenting a bit of information on the U.S. Department of Energy’s involvement in smart grid. By design, it’s not very detailed; it covers …
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Smart Grid Pushback
It’s hard to imagine anyone’s objecting to smart grid, a subject that holds so much potential to enable a more efficient and environmentally friendly way to generate, transmit, distribute and consume electrical energy. When I first heard that there were …
Article on Smart Grid – Thanks To 2GreenEnergy Intern Nikita Rao
Thanks and congratulations to 2GreenEnergy intern Nikita Rao for her first article on smart grid, published here earlier today. This is a subject that is rightfully garnering much attention, as it’s so clearly integral to our civilization’s ability to achieve …
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From 2GreenEnergy Intern Nikita Rao: Smart Grid – Current Progress, Issues and Investment
The failure to achieve clean energy in the U.S is not because it lacks technology and innovation but because it lacks the idea of implementing the technology. We should focus on laying a strong foundation and going forward to build …
Weighing the Benefits of Smart Grid
Like Jesse Berst, my colleague at SmartGridNews, I too am suspicious of claims that consumers of electrical power are motivated solely by lower costs. However, I find it hard to believe that some of these other benefits of smart grid, …
The Transformation of Our Power Utilities
Here’s another article on the megatrend by which our utilities are being transformed, due to the pressures of distributed generation (DG), integrating renewables, demand response/peak shaving, etc. The net: some bright college kids predict that, by 2020, the utilities will …
