Category Archives: Distribution
Webinar: Smart Grid Data Management
Smart Grid Data: How to Look Smarter in a Hurry (Hint: Get Brainiacs to Coach You) Jan 6, 2010 Here’s the problem — many of you could look very, very dumb this year. Thanks to smart meter rollouts and stimulus funding, data will be pouring into your utility. Unless you know how to handle it [...]
Europe Unites to Invest $40 Billion in Huge Off-Shore Renewable Energy Super-Grid
Written by Susan Kraemer Published on January 4th, 2010 This month Europe’s first electricity super-grid dedicated to renewable energy will become a political reality, as part of Europe’s plan to meet its target to reduce greenhouse gas emissions 20% below 1990 levels by 2020. The huge new undersea transmission cable will connect up Scotland’s off-shore wind turbines [...]
GREEN BEER – Brewery to use Price Timed Generation
January 4, 2010 By being tied into the smart grid in Fort Collins, Colo., New Belgium Brewing Co. will know when it makes sense to produce its own power, reports the Coloradoan. The city’s distributed energy generation program is designed to let companies and organizations that have their own generating capacity to add power back to the [...]
BEFI: PUTTING CENTRAL TEXAS AT FOREFRONT OF ENERGY INNOVATION
Austin American Statesman December 30, 2009 BEFI: PUTTING CENTRAL TEXAS AT FOREFRONT OF ENERGY INNOVATION The U.S. Department of Energy recently recognized Austin’s Pecan Street Project for its visionary leadership in the development of smart-grid systems with a $10.4 million stimulus-funds award. The project will deliver electricity more efficiently to consumers using two-way digital flows [...]
PG&E CUSTOMER REVOLT MAY THREATEN ROLLOUT OF OBAMA’S SMART GRID
Dec. 30 (Bloomberg) — Consumer backlash and cost concerns may cause delays in the nationwide rollout of “smart” utility meters at the center of the Obama administration’s $8 billion push to update the U.S. electricity grid. PG&E Corp., owner of California’s largest utility, halted meter installations in Bakersfield, north of Los Angeles, after hundreds of [...]
Restricted Content – Entergy Regulators form Regional State Committee
Entergy’s Retail Regulators have announced the formation of the Entergy Regional State Committee designed to provide collective retail regulatory agency input on the operations of and upgrades to the Entergy Transmission System as well as operations and functions of the Independent Coordinator of Transmission (ICT) in the Entergy region. The members of the E-RSC are [...]
Restricted Content – New Energy Transmission IEEE Standard Now Available
IEEE has published its latest energy transmission standard: IEEE C57.12.38, “IEEE Standard for Padmounted-Type, Self-Cooled, Single-Phase Distribution Transformers; High Voltage, 34 500 GrdY/19 920 V and Below, Low Voltage, 240/120 V; 167 kVA and Smaller.” This standard covers certain electrical, dimensional, mechanical characteristics and safety requirements of single-phase, 60 Hz, liquid-filled, self-cooled, padmounted, compartmental-type distribution [...]
DOE Announces Efforts to Strengthen U.S. Electric Transmission Networks
Energy Secretary Steven Chu announced on Dec. 18 award selections for $60 million in funding from the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act to support transmission planning for the country’s three interconnection transmission networks. The six awards will promote collaborative long-term analysis and planning for the Eastern, Western and Texas electricity interconnections, which will help states, [...]
Smart Grid Market to Peak at $35B in 2013
December 28, 2009 Revenue from smart grid applications is expected to reach a short-term peak of about $35 billion in 2013, according to a new report from Pike Research. At about $10 billion in 2009, the smart grid market should be worth about $18 billion in 2010 and rise steadily until 2013, according to the report [...]
Duke Energy: Envision Smart Energy
This is an EXCELLENT introduction to the “Smart Grid” for non-engineers. YouTube – Duke Energy: Envision Smart Energy. What does a smart grid enabled future look like? And what does it mean for customers? In this video, Duke Energy offers a look. It was shot on location at the company’s Envision Center near Cincinnati, Ohio. [...]