The Smart Grid – When Is it Smart? Part 5
Here’s the recap of Smart Grid Rule #4: You know you have a Smart Grid when your utility offers you a fair, market-based price for any electricity you agree to sell to them. Storage is the...
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Smart Grid Marketing Challenges for Utilities
Do you know what demand response is? If not, don’t worry – unless you are employed by a utility, it’s probably not a term you’ve seen or heard before. It is utility-industry terminology for certain...
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Virtual Power – Market Rewards for Smart Energy Practices
The entire electricity grid is undergoing innovations, and one interesting change is occurring in electricity markets and the way we value electricity consumption. The California Independent System...
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FERC Ruling Is Good News for Feed-in-Tariffs and Distributed Generation
Distributed generation (DG) is one important realization of the Smart Grid to improve grid reliability and add jobs to local economies. At residential, microgrid or utility-scale levels, DG increases...
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The Energy Storage Hand Gets More Interesting
The cards dealt to the energy storage industry are looking better now than in the past. Here are three of them, all played because of the growing presence of Smart Grid technologies that enable...
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Could What Happened to Electrical Service In Connecticut Happen to You?
On October 29, a significant portion of the population of the Northeast USA was inconvenienced by a loss of power caused by an unusually early winter storm. As the worst case scenario played out,...
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Painkillers – the Real Drivers of Innovation for the Electricity Value Chain
One of the largest US-based industry conferences for electricity, gas, and water utilities just wrapped up in San Antonio, Texas. The entire value chain for electricity was well-represented there –...
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Will West by Northwest Deliver A New Electricity Model?
The US Smart Grid transformation has the potential to deliver true energy surety at a more distributed and transactive level than enjoyed in today’s grid. The transformation drivers are technologies,...
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