Sentences with phrase «getting smart grids»

However, getting smart grids up and running is increasing in priority level, as we see with some of the massive projects highlighted here.

Then you create a lot of business opportunities for small businesses and cooperatives to install distributed energy, because you've got a smart grid when you build it out.

While there has been much talk about getting a smart grid, the grid that exists outside the lab isn't quick enough by itself to rebalance inputs and outputs from a variety of different power sources.

And this waiting game might prove to be the smartest strategy for a utility for a few reasons.There is one big problem in getting the smart grid rolling, and that's getting utilities to be early adopters with new software and hardware.

Not exact matches

Tesla CEO Elon Musk said recently that Tesla plans to get into grid services, which use software, smart algorithms, and data to control Tesla batteries to help utilities better manage the power grid.

«The budget also sets aside infrastructure dollars for clean energy, smart grids, energy storage and electric vehicle infrastructure — making sure those essential clean energy investments don't get lost among other priorities.

To keep up with the rise of wind and solar power, Europe's electrical grid needs to get stronger and smarter, a demand that will be difficult to meet in an era of weak economies and tight budgets

But the nation can seek more clean energy from the sun or wind, which won't be affected by climate change, and get the electricity generated elsewhere via a smart grid, he said, referring to an advanced transmission infrastructure China has been building.

Areas slated to get additional funding include renewable energy sources, energy efficiency, storage technologies, the «smart grid,» and integration of renewables into the existing system.

Boulder to Get a 40 Acre - Bike Park In addition to being one of America's most bike - friendly cities, Boulder, Colorado is also known for its progressive policies (such an enacting a carbon tax and creating a smart grid).

It's been quite awhile since we talked about Boulder, Colorado's SmartGridCity, a project by Xcel Energy to get an entire city up and running on a smart grid.

The much talked about variability problem of wind power should dramatically fall as weather forecasting gets smarter and smarter, and as our power grids get more dynamic in terms of managing demand, storing excess and rerouting supply to where it is needed.

They will not get serious consideration in the face of the mythical solutions on the table, these being plug - in cars and the «smart» grid, and perhaps CO2 capture and sequestration.

The integrated «smart grid» electrical power network may be needed to make wind farm power available in the right places, but it will also perpetuate the most wasteful practice known to man which is the system of central power plants that throw away up to twice the heat energy as they manage to get converted into electric energy.

Whether or not tax credits are on the table right now is questionable — especially since the new administration is just getting rolling — but the idea is certainly attractive to the people working on the tools that will make the smart grid happen.

In the chapter, «If it isn't boring, it isn't green,» on page 290 he starts a new section by saying «But to get the most efficiency gains and to make the Energy Internet - smart grid complete requires that one more big piece of the puzzle be put into place — electrifying transportation, and moving as many cars, trucks, buses and trains away from exclusively combustion engines and into plug - in electric hybrids or plug - in all - electric cars.»

To get a better grasp on how solar and our electrical grid work together, I sat down with Gary Paul and Andy Roehr, both Vice Presidents of Capgemini's Smart Energy Practice in North America.

Get in before the smart grid takes over.

And as smart grid technology gets more commonplace, that capacity should only improve.

With continued improvements in smart grid technology that allows renewables to be integrated more easily and further cost reductions in both wind and solar (maybe with some technical breakthroughs), things could get moving fast.

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General Electric has been working on smart appliances for years now, and more importantly, it has been pouring resources into getting those appliances connected within a smart home and the smart grid.

That's why security around the smart grid is a very big part of the slow movement forward — there's very little room to get it wrong.

The Obama administration is already getting pushed by those in the industry to focus on smart grids, and rightfully so.

We've got smart phones and smart meters and smart grids, and now biologists will have new «smart collars» that use GPS and accelerometer technology to track not only a wild animal's location but also how it is moving, when it is hunting, what it is hunting - in other words, these collars can tell us its every move.

As we can see, standards for the smart grid are more vital than just getting energy information from the home to the utility and back.

Experts in the smart grid industry gathered to talk about the roadblocks and strategies for the smart grid, and how vital it is to get it up and running nationwide as soon as possible.

Another Benefit of Smart Grids: Fewer Utility Trucks Spewing CO2 More Fuel Efficiency Hypermiling Plane Gets 45 MPG at 207 MPH, Capable of 100 MPG (That's Better Than Most Cars!)

But as the way we generate electricity is evolving in the face of a changing climate, so is the grid that moves this electricity from Point A to Point B. For one, the technology is getting smarter, enabling us to be more efficient and reduce demand for power.