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[New Energy World Network (newnet)] newnet news - US cleantech fund Craton Equity Partners invests in ...: Tom Soto, managing partners of Craton, added, ”˜With an early lead on the competition, GridPoint is already demonstrating its ability to anticipate and meet the rapidly changing needs of utilities in an era of flux, uncertainty, and increasing pressure to achieve environmental milestones.’

[Benton Foundation - Headlines] Stimulus Dollars Energize Efforts To Smarten Up the Electric Power ...: It would energize his hopes for more jobs and fewer pollutants while remaking a network still moored to the 1950s. The computer-based upgrade will become all the more important if Obama succeeds in creating a cap-and-trade system that would charge companies for excessive carbon emissions.

[KVNU's For The People] Introducing the Smart Electrical Grid | KVNU's For The People: It all seems to be centralized around something called Advanced Metering Infrastructure (AMI).  AMI is the ability of utilities and producers to better monitor their own output and grids, taking into consideration basics such as peak usage periods, and furthering their scope with real time data on weather, responsive grid models, and even environmental/geographical changes (rock slides, earthquakes, suicidal geese).  It also offers consumers the ability to “micro-manage” and monitor their power usage by appliance, time of day, and “price to device”

[Knowledge Problem] Smart grid rhetoric at yesterday’s clean energy summit « Knowledge ...: I would amend her rhetoric to say that if we are going to build new long-distance transmission it should have the two-way communication overlay that is the hallmark of a smart grid, but that the most important area to focus digital intelligence in the long-distance transmission network is in the interconnection function that Secretary Chu discussed. I can envision, indeed I have argued for, a future in which long-distance transmission includes remote devices for the dynamic injection of reactive power to balance power flows autonomously (and ideally in response to price signals in a market for reactive power) when needed, and not in the static “dumb”

[Utility Automation & Engineering T&D - Online Articles in Industry News] Electric Light & Power - The Smart Grid Ecosystem: As the cellular industry has moved from Global System for Mobile (GSM) to General Packet Radio Services (GPRS) to Enhanced Data Rates for GSM Evolution (EDGE) to Universal Mobile Telephone Service (UMTS), and the Wi-Fi market has moved from 802.11A to 802.11G to 802.11N, utilities can expect changes in RF control technologies. Putting HAN radio technologies inside a meter will shorten the technically useful life of the product.

[TechNewsWorld] Technology News: Home Tech: Powering Up Smart Grid Technology: The first step in this research area is to define the term "smart grid." This term describes the infrastructure required and the resulting benefits when adding network communication and computer processing capabilities to electricity .Smart meters with the proper user interfaces can provide information to consumers about their power consumption.

[StorageTopics] StorageTopics: The Smart Grid City and implications for ...: Smart grid technologies are intended to allow customers to determine when, where and how they use energy. The claim is that the technology will allow better monitoring, management, conservation by increasing the awareness of energy use and it will enable external communications with home based “intelligent “appliances.

[V1 Energy Blog] V1 Energy Blog Is a modernized energy grid really worth it? : V1 ...: The American Society of Civil Engineers ranks the U.S. electric grid as a bright spot compared to other infrastructure, but there’s still a need for $1.5 trillion in investment over the next twenty years just in order to keep up with demand. Conversion to a national grid and local smart grid technology could shave considerable cost off that total by driving back growth of demand.

[Rock the Vote Blog] Rock the Vote Blog: What You Need to Know: 03.10.09: Obama also signaled that he intended to use signing statements himself if Congress sent him legislation with provisions he decided were unconstitutional. He promised to take a modest approach when using the statements, legal documents issued by a president the day he signs bills into law that instruct executive officials how to put the statutes into effect.

[Green Inc.] Inching Toward a Smarter Grid - Green Inc. Blog - NYTimes.com: In addition to creating markets for hot new technology, the smart grid is ideally about building efficient, flexible power systems at lower cost and with increased reliability. Linking renewable power generated in remote locations to the grid means utilities gain flexibility in meeting their energy needs and can ultimately become more cost-competitive, said Mr.

[CT Environmental Headlines] CT Environmental Headlines: Region: Study: Maine Power Grid ...: If you are a teacher at a school in Connecticut, or if you are a librarian at a library in Connecticut, or if you are a Connecticut state senator or Connecticut state representative at the Capitol in Hartford, then you have a vested interested in the health and well being of your students, customers, and constituents. CT Environmental Headlines provides easy access to all the state's news headlines published on the Internet.

[Reason Magazine - Hit & Run] Hit & Run > Smart Grid Take-Down - Reason Magazine: For just one thing, these modern smart-grid technologies are not yet widely deployed, yet they have the potential to reduce billions of dollars of costs attributable to power interruptions and fluctuations across the network. The Electric Power Research Institute, for example, estimates that electricity disruptions cost the economy upward of $100 billion each year in damages and lost business.5 With new investments in technology, these losses are increasingly preventable.

[CT Environmental Headlines] CT Environmental Headlines: Event: Smart Growth with Rep. Brendan ...: If you are a teacher at a school in Connecticut, or if you are a librarian at a library in Connecticut, or if you are a Connecticut state senator or Connecticut state representative at the Capitol in Hartford, then you have a vested interested in the health and well being of your students, customers, and constituents. CT Environmental Headlines provides easy access to all the state's news headlines published on the Internet.

[Green Light] Greentech Media: Green Light » Blog Archive » Sen. Reid: Feds ...: Doing this in a cooperative fashion enables the end user to provide and control their energy usage via secure (read Chairman CHu’s) standardized protocols the user, the utility AND indpendent auditors can rely upon to minimize energy theft and tampering and consumers can rely upon for conservation usage while buying power at competitive rates.

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