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List and map of the North American Reliability Councils: Source: Wikipedia/Bouchecl
FRCC – Florida Reliability Coordinating Council Obviously these groups [...] The US Department of Energy lists five technologies that will drive the adoption of the smart grid. The first is: Improved interfaces and decision support, to amplify human decision-making, transforming grid operators and managers quite literally into visionaries when it come to seeing into their systems. Source: US DOE “The Smart Grid: An Introduction.” PR: wait… The current state of the energy grid is sadly inadequate in the level of visibility and situational awareness. One of the most important smart grid applications will be better visibility and visualization tools. According to an article by Jesse Berst, some of the key features that will be brought to the energy grid by improved [...] According to a US DOE report, the United States energy grid is 99.97% reliable. One of the major goals of the smart grid initiative is to increase this reliability. Despite the US energy grid’s reliability rating of 99.97%, outages and interruptions cost Americans over $500 billion per year. Source: US DOE report, “The Smart Grid: An Introduction.” |
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