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The Smart Grid: Enabling Energy Efficiency and Demand Response Clark W. Gellings
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Getting to 2 kW per home is a big deal in mass automated residential demand response. Information technology has made a huge difference for enabling energy management, and it is no surprise that CleanTech venture investment in this area has escalated. The partnership will strengthen three of Itron's It also helps cement the company's ability to play not only in energy efficiency but also demand response and smart grid. While it has slightly fewer megawatts under management than EnerNOC, it's also pursuing different opportunities, most recently with its Apollo platform, which enables DR over smart meters as well as its traditional pager networks. It already works with firms such as Comverge, a demand response company, and Tendril Networks, a provider of home energy management technology, to provide additional software-enabled dimensions to its consumer metering offerings. €�Viridity Energy can forecast where prices due to IceBank systems are a valuable component of the smart grid, enabling energy, including renewable wind energy that mainly blows at night, to be efficiently stored for use during periods of high demand. Demand response refers to actions by customers that change their consumption (demand) of electric power in response to price signals, incentives, or directions from grid operators. Oklahoma Gets Big Home Energy Savings Out of Smart Grid demand reduction across tens of thousands of homes. This new model is characterized by distributed generation, grid integration of renewable energy sources, and smart grid applications such as demand response. Honeywell Acquires Demand Response and Smart Grid Leader Akuacom. In fact, energy efficiency has spawned a new investment category: A home area network (HAN) is the broader concept such that it is part of the smart grid system that oversees energy efficiency and demand response in the household. EnerNOC, for instance, has acquired a series of businesses including building energy efficiency software and wireless controls — markets potentially much bigger than demand response. < Federal Energy Regulatory Commission ➢ v. "It is important that we look at all of the options that can help address and mitigate climate change," said Eileen Claussen, president of the Pew Center on Global Climate Change "and smart grid's role in enabling energy efficiency and other climate-friendly It will try to demonstrate that demand response and energy storage solutions can dynamically complement renewable resources – and avoid the building of new fossil-fuel power plants to fill the availability gaps and peak needs. Assessment of Demand Response and Advanced Metering ➢. Most of these smart-grid-enabled projects are small-scale, meant to prove the costs and benefits of going full-bore with the next generation of utility-to-customer energy engagement. To achieve these objectives, the authors recommend policy changes at federal and state levels of government, noting that many of the policies that enabled the information and wireless transformations were enacted by a deeply divided Clinton/Gingrich government not unlike that currently in power. The Akuacom Demand Response Automation Server provides utilities and independent system operators (ISOs) two-way communication with energy management systems at commercial and industrial sites. With this upgrade to the building controls, CALMAC's tanks are able to function as a part of a real-time demand response system that utilizes data from the utility company. Section 1252(e)(3) of the Energy Policy Act of 2005 (EPAct 2005)1 requires the .. Acquisition Enables Broad Deployment of Commercial Demand Response, Adds to Honeywell's Smart Grid Technology and Expertise MINNEAPOLIS, May 7, 2010 and services for the smart grid.