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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
Format: pdf
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ISBN: 0881736236, 9780881736236
Page: 250

As smart meter rollouts continue globally, consumers, design engineers, and utilities discuss how the smart grid will transform the entire energy industry. System and enables more visibility and control of both the existing electricity infrastructure and new "smart" components, such as smart meters, automated demand response, plug-in electric vehicles and electricity storage devices. Some utilities But the reality is that demand response is largely a manual process right now. 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? A smart electrical power grid could decrease annual electric energy use and utility sector carbon emissions at least 12 percent by 2030, according to a new report from the Department of Energy's Pacific Northwest National Laboratory. It could be Adding more energy storage technology onto the grid would also help store on-demand power that could be available when demand spikes, reducing the need for generators. With a smart grid, utilities can meet next generation demand response challenges, optimize local grid efficiency, predict power outages before they occur and rapidly restore service, and implement other services. Smart meters Distributed resources, such as electric vehicles and various forms of solar and wind generation, are maximizing renewable resources and leveraging the available resources to accommodate peak demand. It's to build out the infrastructure of the smart grid to the point where utilities have many more options for shedding those power loads, doing it efficiently, and doing it in real time. DNV KEMA's Utility of the Future blog is a knowledge community to engage all participants along the energy value chain in moving toward a sustainable energy future. Hardware techniques monitor physical security, enabling responses to tamper events. In this post, I will offer a little context for our discussion, provide my opinion on what has brought about our “emerging” smart grid opportunities, and discuss how the smart grid will enable smarter markets that will include more distributed generation and interactive demand response. 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.