Michael Giberson H. S. Knowlton said, “In the establishment of many kinds of modern business the question of cheap power is one of fundamental importance, and in not a few cases the industrial manager finds it a most difficult problem to decide between installing an isolated plant and contracting for central station service.” That’s from …
Michael Giberson Scientific American has an article on the start-up pains associated with smart grid development: Only one thing is worse than the lights not coming on when the switch is flicked—and that’s the lights going out right afterward. The fact that the problem is most often a burned-out lightbulb is testimony to the reliability …
Michael Giberson According to Accenture, 46 percent of consumers surveyed said they didn’t want smart grid-based energy management systems if it leads to higher electricity bills. My guess is that the other 54 percent of consumers didn’t understand the question. The summary distributed by Accenture contains several other bits of should-be-obvious information – consumers are …
Michael Giberson Obviously the electric utility industry is very much in the experiment and learning phase (also known as “trial and error”) of the smart grid. Two examples are provided by PG&E in California and Xcel in Colorado. It is tempting to rush to judgment on the impossibility of an efficient, well-run, customer-centric smart grid …
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Michael Giberson From the Houston Chronicle, “Smart meter power usage data isn’t so current“: A Web site touted this week as providing near real-time power use information to electricity customers with new smart meters actually delays the information by up to two days, CenterPoint Energy has acknowledged. … The company said Monday the site would …
Michael Giberson If you are already a rock star and can’t imagine doing anything else, then “money for nothing and your chicks for free” may be a reasonable characterization of your situation. On the other hand, if you’re a teenage boy picking up a guitar and hoping to attain wealth and women, you should consider …
Lynne Kiesling I am pleased and honored to be included among Greentech Media’s 100 movers and shakers in smart grid, thank you very much! This is a list of wonderful people, with many of whom I’ve worked over the past five years during the development of smart grid interoperability principles — including economic market design …
Michael Giberson I noticed when posting the previous item that one of the subject tags in the Knowledge Problem system was “smart gird.” Not “grid”, but “gird.” A simple enough substitution of the “i” and “r”, and, apparently, pretty common online. Google yields a plethora of “smart gird” results (although it first redirected me to …
Michael Giberson Much of the smart grid promise (and hype) implicitly suggests that the benefits will be scooped up by high-income consumers. Who else is going to be buying “grid aware” washer-dryer sets with built in wi-fi connectivity integrated into internet-linked home energy managements system? Still, the benefits won’t be limited to big spenders hoping …
Lynne Kiesling Last Friday National Public Radio ran a Planet Money story called “Do smart meters curb energy use?” (first link is to program listing, second is to story transcript) Members of the KP community will not be surprised by any of the content in the report, but it does provide a good introduction to …
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