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The earliest, and one of the largest, example of a smart grid is the Italian system installed by Enel S.p.A. of Italy. Completed in 2005, the Telegestore project was highly unusual in the utility world because the company designed and manufactured their own meters, acted as their own system integrator, and developed their own system software.
The term smart grid is most commonly defined as an electric grid that has been digitized to enable two way communication between producers and consumers. [1] The objective of the smart grid is to update electricity infrastructure to include more advanced communication, control, and sensory technology with the hope of increasing communication between consumers and energy producers.
Logo. Smarter Planet is a corporate initiative of the information technology company IBM. [1] The initiative was formed to encourage the ideas of business, government, and civil society leaders worldwide towards their path of achieving economic growth, near-term efficiency, sustainable development, and societal progress.
Support for the smart grid in the United States became federal policy with passage of the Energy Independence and Security Act of 2007. [1] The law set out $100 million in funding per fiscal year from 2008 to 2012, established a matching program to states, utilities and consumers to build smart grid capabilities, and created a Grid Modernization Commission to assess the benefits of demand ...
The improved flexibility of the smart grid permits greater penetration of highly variable renewable energy sources such as solar power and wind power, even without the addition of energy storage. Smart grids could also monitor/control residential devices that are noncritical during periods of peak power consumption, and return their function ...
Green Grids Initiative — One Sun, One World, One Grid; Country: Global: Partners: International Solar Alliance, India, France, United Kingdom: Vision: The OSOWOG initiative aims to connect different regional grids through a common grid that will be used to transfer renewable energy power and, thus, realize the potential of renewable energy sources, especially solar energy.
In addition to that, Smart Grids are declared to be one measure to reduce CO 2 emissions. There are currently 24 Projects run by private companies around the Smart Grid technology supported by the Austrian Klimafonds and FFG, [5] that are being concluded in the years 2011 and 2012 and have a total volume of €10.3 Mio.
Pages in category "Smart grid" The following 30 pages are in this category, out of 30 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. ...