Gary sent me this, and I thought I’d publish it for him, as I’ve always been so impressed with his insights: Just today, I was reading that China is half way through a program to install ultra high voltage grid …
Category: Smart Grid
U.S. President Obama Calls for a More Reliable and Resilient Grid — But How Will His Nation Respond?
Writing for Smart Grid News, Jesse Berst explains that the Obama administration’s call for a multi-billion-dollar grid upgrade could backfire, as his opponents are so aggressive with their attacks, and will be quick to label this more governmental waste. That’s …
Tagged with: Climate Change, energy storage, EVs charged by renewable energy, extreme weather events, forestalling the construction of new power plants, green-house emissions, grid resilience and reliability, integration of electric vehicles, integration of more wind energy, integration of renewables into the grid, Jesse Berst, multi-billion-dollar grid upgrade, rationale for grid modernization, reducing emissions from gasoline and diesel, redundant power sources, Smart Grid News, transmitting power longer distances
Military and Commercial Microgrids
There are many different ways that the future of energy provisioning can go in radical and exciting new directions. One, as I often mention, is our standard utility model, but given a major shake-up so as to integrate an ever-greater …
High Voltage Direct Current Transmission
In a piece I wrote yesterday on clean energy power density, I mentioned that renewable resources do, in fact, come with a number of limitations, owing mainly to the fact that the infrared, visible, and ultraviolet light we receive at ground level from …
Tagged with: accumulated solar energy over a period of hundreds of millions of years, clean energy power density, connection of disparate AC grids, High Voltage Direct Current Transmission, high voltage transmission, HVDC, importing energy from remote areas, migrating to renewables, minimize line losses, movement of bulk amounts of electrical power over vast distances, renewable resources, subsea transmission of electricity
Rethinking the Regulation of Our Electric Utilities
Here’s an article that points to one of the many issues we face in our quest to integrate large amounts of solar energy into our grid-mix: all this distributed generation is making it tough for the utilities. In 43 of …
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Tagged with: consumer awareness programs encourage energy efficiency, distributed generation, Energy conservation, energy storage, FERC chief nominee Ron Binz, geothermal, high-voltage transmission lines, integrating solar energy into our grid-mix, investments in grid infrastructure, microwind, net-metering programs, New York Times, no free lunch, progressive force in the U.S. Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, ramp-down of coal, Regulation of Our Electric Utilities, smart meters, solar
Clever Smart Grid Start-up
Khosla Ventures recently led a round of $5 million in financing for Bidgely, a smart grid start-up that “disaggregates” data from a customer’s smart meter. Now, for instance, household members can be told, “That old refrigerator is costing you $148 …
How Feasible Is Smart Grid?
Here’s a bit of pessimism on the prospect of building out the grid in the U.S. to foster the massive integration of renewables. “It’s not going to happen, anytime soon, at least,” reports a FERC (Federal Energy Regulatory Commission) spokesperson. …
2GreenEnergy's Latest Webinar: Smart Grids, Smart Cities
Here’s July’s webinar, which I conducted the other day with Jesse Berst, internationally known technology and business analyst, founder and chief analyst of Smart Grid News.com, and founder and Chairman of the Smart Cities Council. I hope readers will check …
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Tagged with: cleaner energy, fiber to office, Jesse Berst, less congestion, less crime, less pollution, livabililty, more convenient services, more educational opportunities, more housing options, one-stop permitting, public WiFi, reliability and resiliency, Smart Cities Council, Smart Grid News.com, smart parking spaces, smart roadways, smart traffic lights, state of the art connectivity, sustainability, Webinar, workability
Getting Rich In Smart Grid
Here’s an article that got my attention: How To Get Rich In Smart Grid. This has always impressed me as an important challenge, as a) I’m very bullish on the sector, and b) the large cap stocks that constitute most …
Tagged with: ABB, GE, Getting Rich In Smart Grid, Honeywell, Johnson Controls, NASDAQ-traded ETF, Schneider, Siemens, smart grid
Ontario, Canada — A Smart Grid Leader By Any Standards
Ontario, Canada is well known as a leader in the adoption of clean energy technology. Their fabled feed-in-tariffs have provided incentive for developers all over the globe to site renewable energy projects in the province. And certainly their adoption of …
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Tagged with: Clean technology, energy storage, Ontario, Renewable Energy, smart grid, Smart meter, Western Hemisphere
