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  • Smart Grids' Year of Growth [View article]
    Maybe I just have a problem with the name, but SmartGrid is a lot of hype. Blackouts are not a major problem unless Enron is involved.
    Smart meters are useful for the limited number of residences that are interested in monitoring and reducing expense -check interest in TOU rates.
    Load leveling is a powerful idea for efficiency and reducing carbon. Utilities have had emergency cut-off agreements with large industrial users for years to handle extreme situations. Residential demand rates have been a flop. For normal load leveling, the only thing I see on the horizon is electric vehicle recharge, which has a dual advantage. But even this is bringing up the base load, not reducing the peak.

    Cogeneration has had the biggest potential to increase generation efficiency and it's been around for years. Reducing transmission losses is a matter of getting supply and demand closer and using bigger conductors. Accomodating micro-distributed demand (residential solar panels) requires no special networking. What's so smart about that?
    Dec 30 00:20 am |Rating: +1 0
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