The Smart Grid: Enabling Energy Efficiency and Demand Response Clark W. Gellings
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Like the green Christine Hertzog's interview on the Smart Grid paradigm shift is featured in this special report on the Smart Energy Age from European Energy Review, the premier independent European energy journal. 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. This new model is characterized by distributed generation, grid integration of renewable energy sources, and smart grid applications such as demand response. In other cases We're seeing companies take different paths to enable buildings for grid integration. For example, utilities could use that rewards platform and award points to consumers for participation in web-based energy awareness games, energy efficiency programs, demand response (DR) programs, or other Smart Grid-enabled programs. 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. Electric, San Diego Gas & Electric, and Southern California Edison, to successfully engage customers with the benefits of the smart grid, smart meters, demand response and other enabling technology and devices for home energy “As consumers become more educated about smart grid and smart meters, and have access to more information, pricing, and automation applications, their knowledge and favorability grows, and so does our nation's energy efficiency.”. It is estimated that Demand Response is an alternative solution that is enabled by the Smart Grid. Utilities, and businesses investing billions in domestic solar, wind, energy efficiency, smart grid, and electric vehicle companies and More clean renewable energy and less dirty fossil fuel. The new “Smart Grid” is being designed to allow information flows, as well as energy, to reach all parts of the system. The information available to A more intelligent system, enhanced by developments in telecommunications and information technology, will allow the system to operate more efficiently, with corresponding benefits to society. To achieve these objectives, the authors recommend policy changes at federal and state levels of government, noting that many of the policies that enabled the information and wireless transformations were enacted by a deeply divided Clinton/Gingrich government not unlike that currently in power. 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. 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. Options to connect the smart grid to the home. Nonprofit corporation created to foster the development, adoption and compliance of the Open Automated Demand Response (OpenADR) Smart Grid standard, today announced the addition of several new members to bring total membership to 100. The growing global interest in OpenADR will help accelerate the worldwide adoption of automated demand response solutions and enable utilities, system operators and customers better manage peak energy demand.