In this short video, Deputy Director of the Galvin Electricity Initiative, Jon Kelly, discusses the Perfect Power Seal of Approval Program, intended to provide a standardized measure for smart grid initiatives.
The program is backed by extensive smart grid research and supported by a wide range of scientists, energy executives and lobbyists, Galvin says. The hope is to make smart grid, like LEED, a recognizable and achievable goal for power companies. Keep reading →
Modeled after the LEED building certification, the Perfect Power Seal of Approval would recognize excellence in smart grid development.
Currently one of the primary goals of the Galvin Electricity Initiative, the seal would measure reliability, efficiency, cost and consumer empowerment metrics of microgrids and smart grid systems. It is intended as a way to standardize and ensure quality of what is for many customers often still a suspicious system. Keep reading →
Consumers have one over-arching question about #SmartGrid: Whats in it for me? – Laura Formusa, Pres & CEO, HydroOne, at #GridWeek. GridWeek
Department of Energy plans to give federal regulators more authority over the siting of electricity transmission lines would delay development, provoke lawsuits, and damage federal-state relations, the utility commissioners’ trade group said.
The National Association of Regulatory Utility Commissioners blasted the proposal to hand more power to the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, saying it ignores court rulings and the intent of Congress, and would give the industry, rather than the government, control over the approval process. Keep reading →
Imagine that significant amounts of extra power could be stored for later use in your home. Now imagine that you can store it in a battery in your very own electric vehicle.
This PJM video highlights the transmission grid operator’s newest MAGICC car initiative, the Mid-Atlantic Grid Interactive Car Consortium. It lays out a a vision for a system that stores energy and then pulls it from batteries when demand fluctuates and potentially spikes. Keep reading →
Texans often have a kind of pride in the extreme weather their state can throw at them, but the ice storms of February 2011 tested even their tolerance as blackouts swept the state alongside freezing temperatures.
Many of the problems highlighted by the cold weather were potentially preventable, the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission said in a review of the incident earlier this year. But the response of those in the Texas power sector was without doubt heroic and swift. Keep reading →
It’s hard to imagine that one day the world may look very different than it does now, but in this video San Diego Gas & Electric (SDG&E) urges consumers to imagine a new reality.
A world with digital technology tracking and managing the grid, a smart grid, in real time, a world with ample infrastructure and recharging stations for electric cars and a world with automated demand response systems that link directly to home appliances may have once seemed impossible, but these innovations are already here, this video claims. In a series of storylines, Sempra-owned SDG&E outlines in this video its efforts in each of these areas. Keep reading →
As she swirled thru PA, #Irene left major damage to electrical equipment, flooding substations, downing trees on wires and destroying poles @PPLElectric
Smart grid is much more than just metering and billing says head of IDC Energy Insights at #APEC AMI workshop in Taipei. #greengrowth @followAPEC
