Sentences with phrase «smart electricity grid»

Things like wind farms, solar panels, hybrid cars, mass transit and efficient buildings connected to a smart electricity grid.

The hub would integrate solar rooftop panels, be connected to the smart electricity grid to provide grid balancing and auxiliary services, and produce net economic benefits estimated at $ 1.35 million per year over 20 years.

Alternatively, as has also been an issue in the context of the switch to smart electricity grids, where the transmission system owner remains part of a vertically integrated firm, it has an incentive to implement network upgrades in a manner that excludes third parties from the competitive segments.

Worthy research objectives include improved fuel cells, solar power, light - emitting diodes for lighting, intelligent buildings, carbon sequestration, advanced nuclear power, superconducting transmission lines, cellulosic biofuels, geothermal power, batteries and other energy storage technologies, super-efficient vehicles, and smart electricity grids.

The search giant recently joined the Demand Response and Smart Grid Coalition, and in September, teamed up with GE on an energy policy and technology partnership that the companies said would include pushing for a smarter electricity grid.

The International Smart Grid Action Network (ISGAN) works to accelerate the development and deployment of smarter electricity grids worldwide.

ISGAN) works to accelerate the development and deployment of smarter electricity grids worldwide.

For example, transactions across smart electricity grids can be authenticated and paid for through the blockchain.

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.

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Under her leadership, the company invested $ 15 billion in modernizing its electricity infrastructure, including spending on «smart» meters (which allow companies to monitor use remotely), auto - switching devices that allow employees to monitor usage and outages from a distance, and technology that helps the grid «self - heal» by rerouting electricity around a damaged power line.

The smart grid in both America and the UK uses communications technology such as smart meters to maximize the efficiency and affordability of electricity.

«While more remains to be done to optimize our electricity system — building transmission lines to carry more clean power to those jurisdictions still burning fossil fuels, investing in smarter grids in our towns and cities, bringing more clean power online — these regulations create a foundation as we transition to clean energy and an economy built to last.»

The rollout of «smart grid» systems and new energy storage technologies can strengthen Canada's reputation as a leader in clean electricity.

Rodan Energy is a leading smart grid integrator delivering energy solutions to electricity consumers, distributors and power producers.

Her focus throughout that period has been largely on the technical, infrastructure and economic issues underpinning the electricity industry, covering topics related to generation, transmission and distribution, smart grid / smart homes and the prospects for electric vehicles.

The Tories also want to introduce smart grids and smart meters which can match demand with supply, while a «decentralised energy revolution» will introduce a system of feed - in tariffs to encourage the micro-generation of electricity.

Householders would also be able to use the smart meters to feed the grid with electricity generated through solar panels.

Just how do we go about making our power grids smart and flexible enough to handle people generating their own electricity from renewable sources?

EPRI assumes that by 2030, 10 million plug - in vehicles will be on the road, and smart grid technologies will permit plug - in vehicles not only to take recharging power from the grid, but to feed power back in from their batteries to help meet sudden changes in electricity demand.

Given the right financial incentives, though, many households may accept smart grid strategies that let utilities reduce power consumption in homes at peak periods of demand, when wholesale electricity prices are highest, some analysts conclude.

The average household could see its monthly electricity bill rise by $ 9 to $ 12 for smart grid products and services.

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.

Several start - up companies aim to help people cut costs, flex their muscles as consumers to promote green energy, and usher in a more efficient energy grid — all by unleashing smart software on everyday electricity usage.

Greater challenges lie ahead as smart grid technologies proliferate in the nation's transmission network and utility control centers and eventually reach business and residential electricity customers

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

The use of smart grids delivers electricity more efficiently and at the same time helps reduce the environmental impact of the system.

«Our goal is to rapidly transform the way electricity is delivered and used,» said Arnold, who added that Duke plans to expand the smart - grid effort to Kentucky and the Carolinas eventually.

Duke Energy Corp. today tapped Cisco Systems Inc. to test «smart grid» software and hardware that the utility hopes will enable its customers to track and reduce their electricity consumption more efficiently.

The President's initiative will empower young men and women to invent and commercialize advanced energy technologies such as efficient and cost effective methods for converting sunlight to electricity and fuel, carbon capture and sequestration, stationary and portable advanced batteries for plug - in electric cars, advanced energy storage concepts that will enable sustained energy supply from solar, wind, and other renewable energy sources, high - efficiency deployment of power across «smart grids,» and carbon neutral commercial and residential buildings.

Among them are smart solar storage systems, smartly interconnected energy grids, and electricity - based synthetic fuels (e-fuels).

Asked which smart grid features they would most prefer, 53 percent of the survey respondents said «technology that can completely automate the management of my electricity.»

A very large portion of consumers want smart grid applications that will conserve electricity and lower their bills without their active involvement.

A new survey of consumer attitudes released today by Accenture indicates that U.S. consumers are more interested in smart grid applications that save them money and automate the management of their electricity use, rather than giving them direct control over heating, cooling and appliances as prices fluctuate during the day.

But keeping those lights on amid ever increasing demand and the rise of wind, solar and other alternative sources of electricity generation that are inherently intermittent is just one of the goals of a smart grid.

The budget also includes a request to fund three new Energy Innovation Hubs, which would focus on electricity storage, smart - grid technologies and critical energy materials such as rare metals used in solar panels.

$ 150 billion over ten years, including workforce training, plug - in hybrids, renewable electricity, advanced biofuels, advanced coal technology, nuclear power, and smart grid

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.

«A smart grid is a complex modern electricity system which utilises sensors, monitoring, communications, and automation, to improve the electricity system,» the team writes.

Many other issues — from climate change to nuclear power to using «smart» electricity grids — also require accurate, understandable scientific communication so that policymakers and the general public can make informed decisions.

With dynamic pricing, provided from the power market and smart meters, installed by utility companies it is now possible for consumers to sell electricity back to the grid and trade it like a typical commodity.

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High - capacity, long - life batteries; fuel cells; the high - efficiency «smart» electricity grid; clean coal and other technologies can help improve the environment, increase efficiency and conserve energy.

This one is more focused towards monitoring the electricity usage of all the gadgets in the home from a single location while also suggesting means that will lead to optimum usage of electricity.The launch of the tablet can be seen as an extension of Cisco's Home Energy Management Solution Suite which is a part of its Connected Grid portfolio of smart grid products as well as technologies that it had recently unveiled.

I myself have been accused of being a paid shill for the coal industry, because I argued that rapidly deploying solar and wind energy technologies, along with efficiency and smart grid technologies, is a much faster and much more cost effective way of reducing GHG emissions from electricity generation than building new nuclear power plants.

We need a new grid, a smart grid, an electricity Internet that is capable of intelligently integrating diverse, centralized and distributed, large and small, baseload and intermittent electricity consumers and providers.

Indeed the whole concept of the «smart grid» is that it will an «InterGrid», which connects a multitude of intelligent micro-grids which will be both consumers and producers of electricity.

«Smart Garage» Rocky Mountain Institute is working on a major project called the «Smart Garage» — the integration of vehicles, the grid, and buildings in which each would share electricity when it was advantageous to the other without being damaging to any.

Combining more - efficient lights and appliances with a smart grid that uses time - of - day pricing, peak demand sensors, and the many other technologies described in this chapter shows a huge potential for reducing both overall electricity use and peak demand.

The alternative is to rely on a combination of storage and smart grid pricing to adapt our current electricity system to one driven mostly by wind and solar PV, with hydro and limited amounts of gas as the dispatchable sources.