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The Smart Grid: Enabling Energy Efficiency and Demand Response Clark W. Gellings
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And then the last space is more on the demand side of the equation and is related to the smart grid — they are really demand response and energy efficiency companies, whether it is EnerNOC (ENOC) or Comverge (COMV). €�The Smart Grid, enabling energy efficiency and demand response” by Mr. The Assessment also makes recommendations for overcoming barriers to more use of demand response. What's meant by 'smart grid.' Second, utilities are asking -- and in many cases, piloting to discover -- how best to involve the customer in energy efficiency and demand response programs via home-area networks (HAN) and/or consumer web portals. Utilities will one day be able to use the data from their smart grid networks for split-second decisions like to help with load management, outage avoidance, and demand response. All those smart meters, distribution automation systems, plug-in vehicle chargers and demand-response-enabled homes and businesses send and receive massive amounts of data, using a variety of communications networks to connect with a variety of back-end software systems, which can be managed by utilities (Big-data-based startups like FirstFuel, Retroficiency and IBM are applying similar principles to the building energy efficiency field, by the way.). In other cases We're seeing companies take different paths to enable buildings for grid integration. And demand side (demand management control, optimization through automation/sensors, efficient equipment installation in the last mile of energy usage - low consumption devices etc.). Dille: I would say my concern is that demand response has had such a strong regulatory tailwind that has really created and enabled demand response to become a material participant in the electricity market. In some cases, we're seeing utilities reaching into customers' homes and buildings via new pricing schemes, demand response signals or direct load control switches. Meanwhile, building energy efficiency technology remains, for the most part, concerned with what's happening within its four walls, not on the grid at large. 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. Google joined an industry association called the Demand Response and Smart Grid Coalition in November. On the consumer portion of the smart grid, real time data is important, too, and will For example, data that can be mined to make their systems more efficient, or enable utilities to predict the outcome of events. We are on the cusp of another transformation in energy efficiency as the smart grid takes hold. 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. What follows is a discussion of the Assessment in relation to the six requirements included in section .. Intel CTO of Datacentre and Connected Systems Group and senior Consumers can also move towards installing smart appliances, that can automatically shut off in response to fluctuations that are potentially damaging.