Sentences with phrase «managing smart electricity grids»

I recently wrote about the real - world applications of this, from managing smart electricity grids, to managing the flow of capital in crowd - funding projects, to disrupting social media.

Not exact matches

Recent studies conclude that while some tech - savvy consumers will line up for smart grid applications for the home, most residential customers are not eager to manage their daily energy use, particularly with electricity prices at relatively low levels.

Webber and co-author Robert Fares, a Cockrell School alumnus who is now an American Association for the Advancement of Science fellow at the U.S. Department of Energy, analyzed the impact of home energy storage using electricity data from almost 100 Texas households that are part of a smart grid test bed managed by Pecan Street Inc., a renewable energy and smart technology company housed at UT Austin.

An era is coming in which artificially intelligent systems can manage your energy consumption to save you money and make the electricity grid even smarter

As part of the Recovery Act, this Administration invested $ 4.5 billion in electricity delivery and energy reliability modernization, with total public - private investment amounting to over $ 10 billion To ensure that all Americans benefit from these smart grid investments, the Administration released a policy framework and a series of new initiatives in June 2011 that will empower consumers with tools to better manage their electricity and cut costs, improve the reliability of the electric grid, and help utilities recover from natural disasters faster.

We're designing smarter grids that make it easier than ever to manage different forms of electricity, creating increasingly better batteries to store it, and improving the efficiency of our buildings and machines to use less of it in the first place.

Cisco has made the smart grid a primary focus for the company, and has determined that they want to be the leader when it comes to technology used for managing electricity.

Tyler Hamilton at Clean Break thinks that the «momentum is on the side of battery technology and the infrastructure to support it needs to be extended and upgraded, instead of created from scratch» and «millions of «smart» electric cars plugged into the grid can offer an extremely valuable way of managing electricity supply and demand and smoothing out peaks.»

On their own, most people would probably recharge their EV at night, and with a smart grid, it would be easy to better manage and coordinate charging so that spare capacity is used first (which would also be good for drivers since - if there's a time - of - use rate - they would charge up when electricity is cheaper).