Each of the utilities contacted had deployed or were planning to deploy smart grid technologies.
The Obama administration unveiled a new campaign today to accelerate deployment of smart grid technologies.
And nothing will happen unless regulators force utilities to adopt those smart grid technologies.
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Some of the recent trials of trying to integrate smart grid technologies into homes have flopped too.
Energy markets have created many new employment sectors like solar, wind, biofuels, batteries, sensors and smart grid technologies.
Policy makers and regulators should recognize that, although smart grid technologies have great potential, they are still maturing.
Smart grid technologies have gotten huge government support in the past two years.
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Moreover, an industry group of sorts, the GridWise Alliance, has already formed in an effort to promote smart grid technologies.
And Korea is quietly connecting its national labs, historically great technical universities, and public utilities to conduct large-scale tests of cutting-edge smart grid technologies.
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Everyone agrees that consumers need to be educated about the entirely new types of energy use data that can be created with Smart Grid technologies.
Is it fundamentally going to shift because of smart grid technologies?
Just this week the National Association of Regulatory Utility Commissioners (NARUC) passed a resolution endorsing the continuing modernization of the electric system with smart grid technologies.
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Having regulators, as a condition of approving smart grid investments, require utilities to deploy smart grid technologies in a manner consistent with reasonable and effective cyber and physical security best practices.
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The U.S. Department of Energy has approved billions of dollars to technology developers such as Silver Spring and a bunch of utilities to test and deploy smart grid technologies across the country.
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The top 10 also includes American Superconductor (47.5%), which provides power grid technologies, solid-state drive maker STEC (34.4%), and MIPS Technologies (32.5%), which has a 3-year EPS growth rate of 71%.
In 2003, IBM co-founded the US-based GridWise Alliance that advocates for grid modernization, and in 2007, IBM formed the Global Intelligent Utility Network Coalition (GIUNC), a coalition of players in the energy and utilities market, which is helping accelerate the adoption and use of smart grid technologies and bringing digital intelligence to current systems.
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The idea is to outfit the grid with technologies such as "smart meters"--which allow consumers to see when electricity is most expensive--to bolster the grid and make it more efficient.
A123 makes batteries for electric cars and grid storage, technologies that China sees as a huge growth industry.
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New entrants include Opower, Coulomb Technologies, Grid Net and Tendril Networks.
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As feed-in tariffs expand to countries around the world, allowing early adopters a premium price for the green electricity they generate and sell back to the grid, the collection technologies will become ever more efficient and cheaper.
The company has become a prominent player in the so-called smart grid market because its communication technologies help utilities collect and manage energy consumption data from customers quickly.
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The logistical challenges involved in sustaining military operations in remote areas where wars are commonly waged has convinced the U.S. Department of Defense to deploy a growing number of cutting-edge solar-energy technologies in off-grid combat zones.
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They also stressed the need for standardization of the smart grid components, to avoid a patchwork of technologies across the country.
Advances in fuel cell technologies are critical in supporting the integrated grid systems, with their peak-load management and mitigation capabilities, and without which integrating renewables into the energy mix will be a much more expensive and painful affair than often supposed.
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The advent of a range of information, communications, and energy technologies provides us with an opportunity to upgrade the grid in a manner that will enable it to operate more efficiently, more reliably, and to spur innovation.
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From wind and solar, to waste and biomass to energy, fuel cells, co-generation, natural gas, and smart grid, speakers and attendees discussed a diverse portfolio of advanced energy technologies that are being developed and deployed in Ohio.
Renewable resources to batteries and smart grid systems to store that -- and transmit that energy, to technologies like advanced lighting that help conserve energy.
We've got an entirely new set of technologies, huge demands in terms of energy, but we've got a grid that's completely outdated.
The good news is that technologies are now being developed in four areas that point the way towards the smart grid of the future.
Thanks to its commitment to renewable energy, Hawaii is now also becoming something of a test bed for renewable energy technologies, from the study of various geothermal and algae-based biofuel technologies happening at the Natural Energy Laboratory of Hawaii Authority on the Big Island to smart grid experiments the state is conducting along with representatives from Japan and China.
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