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News: Wednesday, March 10, 2010
New Study Unveils Industry Perspective on Smart Grid Deployment
Survey respondents identified electricity reliability, efficiency and power stability as the top three benefits to the smart grid. Reliability and efficiency stood out with 68 and 65 percent of respondents pegging these in the top three while power stability followed at a more distant third with 39 percent. The study was conducted by Penton Research/ Transmission & Distribution World and sponsor S&C Electric Company.
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IEEE P1901 Broadband over Power Line Standard Enters 30-Day Period of Sponsor Balloting
IEEE P1901 defines data distribution among all classes of BPL devices -- for the smart grid, first-mile/last-mile service connections, in-building LANs, vehicle platforms and other security-sensitive applications. Driven by the requirements of diverse end users, the standard is designed to ensure efficient use of the power-line communications channel, define coexistence and interoperability among multi-vendor BPL devices, deliver sufficient bandwidth and support Quality of Service (QoS).
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Chugach Electric To Research Energy Efficiency Monitors
The research project, dubbed "Watt Buster," is funded by Chugach and a matching grant from the Alaska Energy Authority. Watt Buster also has a commercial component, which is monitoring electric, gas and air quality systems at 30 commercial buildings. After the trial period, data about participants' energy use will be compiled and compared to the same months in previous years.
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OASIS Blue Advances Open Standards for Smart Energy Grids, Intelligent Buildings, and Natural Resource Management
The new section of OASIS will bring together a variety of open standards projects related to energy, intelligent buildings, and natural resources. Among other efforts, the group will help define standards for the collaborative and transactive use of energy within demand response and distributed energy resources. It will also focus on exchanging pricing information and product definitions in energy markets.
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EnerNOC Releases New Energy Management Application Platform
The new EnerNOC application platform is designed to provide a single user interface, offering commercial, institutional, and industrial (C&I) customers on-demand access to EnerNOC's suite of applications. The offering is intended to enable EnerNOC's utility customers to couple EnerNOC's application platform with their own branding, and seamlessly integrate it with their own customer-facing web applications, helping to promote customer satisfaction.
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Volt/Var Optimization System Operational at Ripley Power and Light Company
Ripley Power & Light is the first electric utility east of the Mississippi to deploy this kind of voltage control system, which is being closely studied by the Electric Power Research Institute (EPRI). The system is designed to gives utilities the ability to monitor and adjust voltages at critical points throughout the distribution system, thereby conserving energy and reducing power losses.
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FutureDash Announces Support for Google PowerMeter
The GreenDash server is designed to act as an energy monitoring hub, collecting data in real-time from the smart meter and other compatible smart energy devices around the home. GreenDash then relays it in real-time to its own personal energy dashboard clients via the user's local area network (LAN) or the Internet. This enables the homeowner to benefit from near real time awareness of changes in their energy consumption and to take appropriate action to reduce their energy usage.
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