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The Smart Grid: Enabling Energy Efficiency and Demand Response by Clark W. Gellings

The Smart Grid: Enabling Energy Efficiency and Demand Response Clark W. Gellings ebook
ISBN: 0881736236, 9780881736236
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Format: pdf
Page: 250

Credit: Portland General "It is a highly innovative project demonstrating transactive energy management, which is a promising, cost-effective way to integrate variable renewable energy, energy storage and demand response at scale. In other cases We're seeing companies take different paths to enable buildings for grid integration. "It is important that we look at all of the options that can help address and mitigate climate change," said Eileen Claussen, president of the Pew Center on Global Climate Change "and smart grid's role in enabling energy efficiency and other climate-friendly It will try to demonstrate that demand response and energy storage solutions can dynamically complement renewable resources – and avoid the building of new fossil-fuel power plants to fill the availability gaps and peak needs. PGE is a participant in the Battelle-led Pacific Northwest Smart Grid Demonstration Project, which will use the center's 5-megawatt energy storage system to test several smart grid technologies and approaches. Accommodates all generation and storage options. Jim Rogers, CEO of Duke Energy, wants to own every piece of the smart grid, all the way down to the energy portals in customers' homes and the solar panels on their roofs. Department of Energy, in a recent report, takes stock of its Smart Grid Investment Grant program (SGIG), which, with funding from the 2009 stimulus bill, provides $3.4 billion in direct grants to be matched on a The improved infrastructure is enabling SMUD, among other things, to conduct trials of time-of-use and critical peak price systems, so as to evaluate the potential for demand-response systems and determine how such systems are best designed. Demand response and energy efficiency are often seen as two peas in a pod. Farrell suggested, “looking to energy efficiency and conservation, or smart-grid enabled demand response. Meanwhile, building energy efficiency technology remains, for the most part, concerned with what's happening within its four walls, not on the grid at large. EDGE is a modular conservation voltage management system that enables utilities to deploy incremental grid-side energy management, requiring no behavioral changes or purchases by end customers, the companies say. Portland General Electric, the local utility company in Portland and Salem, Oregon, sponsored a look at the Smart Grid entitled, “A Smart Grid Perspective of Energy Efficiency, Renewables, and Demand Response.” At the beginning of the seminar we learned that there are over 80 different definitions of the Smart Grid floating “Enables active participation by consumers. Ultimately, a wireless communication system that lowers cost, speeds up deployment, and accelerates global energy efficiency and usage, can enable companies to design state-of-the-art Smart Grid solutions, water & gas distribution systems, condition & risk monitoring and energy-optimizing Most utilities are focused on a strategy to upgrade their meters to Smart Meter technology, which enables a host of new applications such as time-of-day-pricing and demand response. Enables new products, services, and markets. It already works with firms such as Comverge, a demand response company, and Tendril Networks, a provider of home energy management technology, to provide additional software-enabled dimensions to its consumer metering offerings. While efficiency can drive down overall energy use, even more kilowatts can be shed when the grid needs it most. The partnership will strengthen three of Itron's It also helps cement the company's ability to play not only in energy efficiency but also demand response and smart grid. In some cases, we're seeing utilities reaching into customers' homes and buildings via new pricing schemes, demand response signals or direct load control switches. For states that can't meet their demand completely from renewables, Mr. Automated demand response, or AutoDR could cost-effectively help combat intermittent renewable energy supply, particularly in light of the current high costs of grid-connected storage batteries.