Sentences with phrase «smart grid technology»

The challenge program has also produced 22 new commercial partnerships and resulted in the acquisition of FMC - Tech, a smart grid technology company selected in the first phase.

Blockchain allows eCharge to utilize smart grid technology that tracks and records each unit of energy distributed across the network in an unalterable ledger.

However, like everything else regarding smart grid technology, engineers are wary about taking the swarm logic to a bigger scale because it's new and hasn't been extensively tested.

Latching on to already - developing smart grid technology and infrastructure, it can wirelessly transmit water flow data on demand or on a set schedule, creating a new communication network between water systems and those managing it.

The Demand Response and Advanced Metering Coalition (DRAM), a group that works to educate and influence policymakers and the mainstream about smart grid technology, is changing its name to the Demand Response and Smart Grid Coalition (DRSG).

With the addition of these fighting four, DRSG and smart grid technology as a whole stands a much bigger chance for rapid advancement.

While naysayers continue to point to the intermittent supply of solar and wind, large - scale energy storage; the massively underestimated potential of energy efficiency; and the rapid advance of smart grid technology and truly low energy building infrastructure all point to an energy future that will look nothing like our past.

Utilities just haven't done a good enough job selling the benefits of smart meters in particular and smart grid technology in general to consumers.

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.

In fact, it's a marked departure from trends of the last few years, which were stocked with Eco-Police parodies, ads for GE's smart grid technology, and hybrid cars.

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

Researchers developed smart grid technology that determines the optimal operation for smart loads and utility devices based upon consumer preferences and geography that will enable grid operators a way to manage demand on peak days.

John Morgan is Chief Scientist at Pooled Energy, a startup electricity company building smart grid technology.

With a synthesis of distributed generation, EVs and smart grid technology, Crane said, «what we're talking about is the democratization of energy use.»

Like Cool Power, the ultimate application of Wire - Lite's technology, which is now growing one customer at a time, will come with the implementation of smart grid technology, when — with wider use — it would be able to take on demand response responsibilities.

Funds are also used for community and technical colleges to establish two clean energy centers for excellence within rural communities, with one focused on renewable energy integration and the other on smart grid technology and the next generation of hydropower resources.

5) Always keep focused firmly on the goals — robust, localized, renewable energy supplied and managed on a smart grid technology.

Smart grid technology is targeted to manage distributive energy production, with some ability to manage load.

The system that uses smart grid technology could allow utilities to push more power through transmission lines, possibly nixing the need for new transmission -LSB-...]

Whilst Barnard claims to be operating independently of his employer, IBM, the amount of time he spends blogging on wind power and smart grid related issues, and the business connections IBM have with the renewables industry with respect to smart grid technology and renewable energy, make his assertion that IBM are not involved and supporting his activities questionable.

Some examples of devices that may be hackable: medical devices, cars, cell phones and smart grid technology.

Deployment of smart grid technology from U.S. utility control centers and power networks to consumers» homes could cost between $ 338 billion and $ 476 billion over the next 20 years, but will deliver $ 1.3 trillion to $ 2 trillion in benefits over that period.

«This funding and the demonstration project ensure that Ontario will continue to lead in the development of smart grid technology,» said Bob Leigh, President, Prolucid Technologies Inc. «Utilities globally face significant challenges to change the model of power consumption, reducing greenhouse gases and increasing the efficiency of the grid.

The comprehensive redesign and reconstruction will incorporate the latest hands - on interactive technologies and reflect the transformative changes occurring in New York State's electric power industry under Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo from the increased use of clean renewable power resources, smart grid technologies and energy efficiency.

Gov. Andrew Cuomo recently announced New York would invest $ 250 million to develop smart grid technologies to modernize the state's energy grid.

Power systems are adopting so - called smart grid technologies, such as advanced power sensors and automated switches, that could have unintended impacts on reliability, Papic notes.

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.

Others believe that non-traditional cost recovery would be essential to accelerate deployment of smart grid technologies.»

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

Is Texas the model for how expanding renewable generation and smart grid technologies could transform the nation's utility sector?

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.

Smart home and smart grid technologies can help balance the energy demand throughout the day so that back - up power plants don't need to be used.

Efforts are also under way to upgrade distribution grids to accommodate smart grid technologies and prepare for a high percentage of renewables.

Such policies should promote the use of non-combustion renewable energy, low carbon fuels (measured on a lifecycle basis), expanded transmission and smart grid technologies, alternative forms of transportation, and energy storage.

The President recently proposed three new Hubs for smart grid technologies, batteries and energy storage, and critical materials.

Given the $ 40 billion State Grid is spending on smart grid technologies and the planned 36 million new smart meter - equipped homes, some sort of pricing reform must be in the cards to capture the returns.

Smart grid technologies provide energy producers and consumers with real - time information and better control of the electric grid, improving energy reliability, reducing energy costs and minimizing greenhouse gas emissions responsible for climate change.

The plan includes funding for energy storage, smart grid technologies, microgrids and electric vehicles — paid for by reversing parts of the Republican tax bill.

It is undisputed that smart grid technologies offer numerous benefits to electric utilities and customers.

How you seeing the advantages of smart grid technologies coming into play?

Supporters of the ballot measure emphasize that the vote is more about delivering renewables and taking back local control, rather than being a referendum on smart grid technologies.

The book also takes the opportunity to talk the lay reader through the various solar technologies available, including thin - film, crystalline, solar - thermal, passive solar and solar concentrators, as well as exploring the various potential combinations of centralized versus decentralized supply, grid - tied versus off - grid, and how smart grid technologies may help manage supply and even out demand.

Google is prejudging what the next energy economy will look like by investing hundreds of millions of dollars in renewable energy and smart grid technologies — not only into R&D but into actual deployment of today's powerful, mature wind and solar technologies, from which they expect to profit in the short term, not decades from now.

The company is essentially using smart grid technologies and a proprietary «swarm algorithm» to make sure that energy use stays at a steady, and cheap, rate when things like air conditioners and heaters need to kick on.

Money is a great motivator for anything, and likely the biggest one when it comes to reducing energy usage at home, but a study done for the Smart Grid Consumer Collaborative (SGCC) found that U.S. utility customers were interested in smart grid technologies for much more than just the ability to save money.

Such new genius grids will use the smartest of the present smart grid technologies to provide altogether new visibility into, and optimization of, the supply and demand - side using innovative grid - connected generation technologies.

InterFlex aims to explore various smart grid technologies to resolve grid constraints in order to make the growth of renewables in the electric power systems possible.

In the meantime, every state in the country has the power to force our power companies to invest in energy efficiency programs, renewable energy, and smart grid technologies that will power us more safely, and also more cheaply, into the next century.

Not exact matches

Other Canadian firms have been developing completely different, yet just as creative, smart - grid technologies.

«This can be as simple as coloured lights on your dishwasher to remind you to wait until after peak hours,» says Ian Rowlands, a professor in the University of Waterloo's faculty of the environment who's working extensively on smart - grid technologies.