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The Smart Grid: Enabling Energy Efficiency and Demand Response Clark W. Gellings
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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. 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. Big Smart Grid data consists of large datasets enabled by the Smart Grid that create value for data owners and data users. The reports suggest that Utilities will wake up to the need to catch up after having wasted this lead-time and will scramble to offer their customers better solutions that enable use of smart meter data, energy efficiency and demand response services, and distributed generation options. UCLA's Smart Grid Energy Research Center or SMERC is creating a Smart Grid Training Workshop for utilities, industry and government. 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. However, the era of smart grid has sparked a renewed interest in demand response and energy efficiency. Honeywell's decades-long experience designing and implementing demand response and energy efficiency programs for utilities will serve as the foundation for Smart Grid Solutions. The big three California investor owned utilities recently filed their smart grid deployment performance reports with the California Public Utilities Commission. Lang claimed that energy efficiency and demand response can lower our need for new generation by 50 percent. Utilities and other energy service providers need this type of consumer data to effectively enlist support for future energy efficiency and demand response campaigns and programs that reward changes in energy consumption. Smart Grid Training workshop http://smartgrid.ucla.edu/workshop. His office is "extraordinarily concerned about cybersecurity in the grid ." and is yet they are now working with SSN and networking about 10,000 homes a day with smart meters. More utilities are piloting smart grid-enabled demand response programs, but customer engagement is crucial to success. 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 White House report, “A Policy Framework for the 21st Century Grid: Enabling Our Secure Energy Future,” was released last week and emphasizes four key pillars: smart grid investments, innovation in the electricity sector, New Rules report, said in an email that the White House report “has the right elements of the 21st century grid (renewable energy, efficiency and demand response, and smart grids), but it maintains the unnecessary, top-down utility 'grid-lock. Like the universe itself, Smart Grid data is in an expansion phase. Department of Energy, in a recent report, takes stock of its Smart Grid Investment Grant program (SGIG), which, with funding from the 2009 stimulus bill, provides $3.4 billion in direct grants to be matched on a The improved infrastructure is enabling SMUD, among other things, to conduct trials of time-of-use and critical peak price systems, so as to evaluate the potential for demand-response systems and determine how such systems are best designed. And lastly and most germane to Greentech Media readers, he wants to accelerate the smart grid and energy efficiency through product innovation enabled by open standards.