According to the US Department of Energy, power outages are impacting a larger number of energy users than they did in the past: “41% more outages affected 50,000 or more consumers in the second half of the 1990s than in the first half of the decade. The “average” outage affected 15 percent more consumers from 1996 to 2000 than from [...]
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The US DOE states that a mere 5% increase inefficiency in the United States energy grid would result in energy savings equivalent to the fuel and greenhouse gas emissions from 53 million cars! The energy savings from a smarter grid could be huge, and may well be worth the investment in the smart grid. only 668 Since 2000, only 668 additional miles of interstate transmission have been built. If the United States is to increase the amount of energy that comes from renewal resource like wind, new transmission lines are going to have to be built! Additionally, these new transmission lines need to be smart [...] Phasor measurement units sample voltage and current in the energy grid. These measurements are currently take every 2 to 4 seconds. The smart grid, with its great digital, two-way communication technologies, will be able to take Phasor measurements many, many times a second. This will allow a much more robust and deep view into the [...] An unreliable, dumb energy grid results in tremendous costs. None is more easily visible than the impact of power outages. The worse power outage in recent US history was the 2003 Northeast blackout. On Thursday, August 14th, 2003 a power outage impacted a large portion of the Northeast of the United States. The blackout impacted Connecticut, Massachusetts, Michigan, New Jersey, New [...] According to the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission’s 2008 report, “Assessment of Demand Response and Advanced Metering,” Demand Response is the killer smart grid application. The report states: The 2008 FERC Survey indicates that about eight percent of customers in the United States are in some kind of demand response program. There have also been large increases in [...] Given the fact that it is such a regulated industry, it’s no surprise that investment in R&D by the US electricity industry has been under 2% of revenues, vs. over 15% for healthcare. But lower than the “stone, clay and glass” industry? Wow!Source: US DOE’s “The Smart Grid: An Introduction” What will happen to energy investment [...] |
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