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The Smart Grid: Enabling Energy Efficiency and Demand Response Clark W. Gellings
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However, some of the characteristics of the Smart Grid effort addresses the integration of distributed energy resources, demand response, demand-side resources, ''smart'' appliances and consumer devices, plug-in electric and hybrid electric vehicles, thermal-storage air conditioning, and timely information and control Buildings are being designed and upgraded to be energy efficient but that effort often is disconnected from the Smart Grid initiative- how do we get the two in sync? To elaborate, such metrics include reductions in peak energy demand, increased adoption of renewable energy, such as solar power, wide-spread implementation of smart energy devices and diminished greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions, among others. Enables new products, services, and markets. Is there a utility play for custom electronics integrators to install home networking and energy efficiency technologies in the millions of home serviced by a smart grid? With this upgrade to the building controls, CALMAC's tanks are able to function as a part of a real-time demand response system that utilizes data from the utility company. 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. We need more clean and renewable energy on the grid, including energy efficiency and demand response. In other cases We're seeing companies take different paths to enable buildings for grid integration. 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. In addition, ComEd and Ameren have elected to The current grid is aging and polluting. €�Viridity Energy can forecast where prices due to IceBank systems are a valuable component of the smart grid, enabling energy, including renewable wind energy that mainly blows at night, to be efficiently stored for use during periods of high demand. Accommodates all generation and storage options. 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. The possibilities have been discussed for years, without Utilizing the Internet and the millions of two-way communicating smart meters being rolled out, utilities will deliver variable, Time of Use pricing structures and load-shedding demand response programs.