Big lessons can come from small places.
In 2009, the IT giant IBM agreed to transform the utility operations of a small Mediterranean island country, Malta, by implementing a national smart grid system for water and electrical use. Keep reading →
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Customers are mostly ignoring it. Utilities are largely drowning in it. Technology firms are trying to parse it.
Electricity usage data lies at the heart of efforts to remake the US energy sector, and smart meters that enable more-detailed usage data production are actually a challenge for both the customers trying to understand their power bills and can complicate the efforts of generators accustomed to blunt tools when managing complex and delicate generation infrastructure. Keep reading →
How much data is too much data?
Utilities and cities are struggling, alongside private companies, to find effective ways to filter and organize, at speed and with efficiency, the enormous amounts of data new communication devices throughout the energy origination, production and delivery systems emit. IBM may have found a way to solve the problem. Keep reading →
The more things change, the more they stay the same.
When this video was filmed, most of the US power grid was already more than 50 years old, and concerns about technological innovation and investment levels in the electricity sector were intensifying. Keep reading →
The industry of substation automation, involving a multitude of devices, technologies, and business models requiring skilled product selection, implementation, interoperability, and engineering, is burgeoning. Committed Smart Grid nations are prioritizing their efforts to revitalize their decaying electric infrastructure by investing in critical upgrades to their substations and ensuring these structures can be seamlessly connected to the Smart Grid.
SBI Energy report “Global Smart Substation Products Market” examines the avid worldwide interest in smart substation development, including the market size, scope of the products and the uneven pace at which nations are adopting the different substation automation architectures. Keep reading →
“The results from these case studies demonstrate that variability needs not be an impediment to deployments.”
“As long as power systems and markets are properly configured so they can get the best use of their flexible resources, large shares of variable renewables are entirely feasible from the balancing perspective.” Keep reading →
With the economy still faltering three years after the financial crisis began, the energy industry is still reeling from the hit as consumers dial back their energy-intensive practices. Keep reading →
“Negawatts” go to the heart of effective electricity pricing and energy efficiency efforts.
In essence, a negwatt of electricity is the shadow equivalent of a megawatt that goes unused. A megawatt is a unit of power equivalent to one million watts. Keep reading →
Tendril is that rare beast, a successful smart grid start-up.
Based in Boulder, Colorado, Tendril specializes in the software component of the smart grid, helping larger firms gather, manage and understand the huge amounts of data they need to implement and then understand their own customers. Keep reading →
Electricity: the fuel of electric vehicles (EVs). The price of electricity: a key determinant of their economic viability. Policies to support renewable energy and reduce carbon emissions tend to push electricity prices up. Under what circumstances will the mass scale deployment of EVs in the United States – supported by McKinsey research findings – help to mitigate or reinforce these upward pressures on power prices? Keep reading →
