This is driving strong demand for smart grids, green building materials and the like.
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It is claimed that Scotland already has world-class research in smart grids and related technologies.
Everybody gets wonderful new mass transit upgrades, alternative energy infrastructure, smart grids, and bridges to nowhere.
Other connected devices like smart grids, smart cars, e-readers and alarms present incremental opportunities.
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Nowhere more so than with smart grids, which are regarded as a major contributor to a low-carbon economy.
Smart grids can happen at the building level and scale up to global, just as the Internet did.
Like microgeneration, the idea of such "smart grids" has been circulating in the energy community for some time.
Smart grids help match energy demand to changeable supply, from wind for example.
The ultimate point of smart grids, however, is to allow dynamic pricing, with electricity charges fluctuating in response to demand.
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Peter Ogden director of CPRW said smart grids would see localised electricity produced and distributed at a more local level.
There will be greater vulnerability with increasing numbers of intelligent systems creating more potential targets, from autonomous vehicles to smart grids.
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Research by Accenture for the World Economic Forum exposes two key challenges facing utilities in the roll out of smart grids.
Smart grids provide real-time information on electricity use, so that consumers and businesses can make efficient energy choices on a truly reliable network.
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The evidence tells us that we need to learn from some early lessons if smart grids are to make a real impact on emissions.
The government wants smart grids to help prevent blackouts caused by too many people running their air conditioners and their dishwashers at the same time.
We are also working on battery charging stations and smart grids.
Smart grids are at the fulcrum of the emerging low-carbon economy.
Put simply, utilities are being asked to build smart grids in order to reduce demand for energy while long-standing industry rules still reward them for supplying more.
This contradiction compromises the financial case for smart grids.
And to ensure smart grids enable the low-carbon future, regulated utilities must be given output-based incentives that fairly reward them for delivering future capacity to support renewables and the electrification of the heating and transport sectors.
Such networks are already revolutionizing inventory control and fleet management, and are set to play a growing role in key social sectors like healthcare, through e-health applications, education, through remote learning and teacher training, and environmental management through applications like smart grids, monitoring systems and smart buildings.
Governments should also encourage investment in knowledge-supporting infrastructure, which ranges from smart electricity grids and broadband internet networks to basic research and university education.
The most promising applications of mHealth for now are public-health messaging, stitching together smart medical grids, extending the reach of scarce health workers and establishing surveillance networks for infectious diseases.
More investment is flowing to technologies such as upgraded power grids with smart meters that allow users to better manage their consumption of electricity, and energy-efficient buildings that reduce the cost of operations and improve human health through better air quality.
That's why we're investing in companies right here in Nevada and across this nation that produce solar power and wind power and the smart, energy-efficient electric grids -- (applause) -- the investments that are giving rise to a clean energy economy. (Applause.) It's vital that we do that.
Smart meters and other gear needed to make grids more intelligent will not come cheap.
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In some smart cities, these cars are also connected to public transportation grids making inner city traffic more manageable.
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