Smart grid systems that greatly limit the potential of all outages should be examined to make sure they do not present a small but unacceptable risk of their operations bringing the entire system down ...

Smart grid technologies are automated and enable two-way communications, giving power generators the ability to monitor a number of plants and implement control strategies in a fraction of a second.

Thus, smart-grid innovation will fall in the realm of corporate social responsibility, unless government throws a lot of money into the utilities' pockets to install smart meters across the board.

The smart grid will bring a new level of connectivity and real-time visibility into energy consumption, costs, and operations for the energy industry, business, and consumers, ...

Smart-grid energy savings. As green energy sources such as wind and solar slowly make up a larger portion of the U.S. energy picture, a smart grid will be better able to integrate and transmit ...

The IEEE Standards Association has more than 100 smart grid standards developed or in development, and these will support a wide range of technologies and services that will be used throughout a ...

Smart switches are able to automatically shut off electricity when a branch, animal or debris contacts powerlines, helping to ...

Opposition to the Smart Grid is picking up speed because there are parts of the roll out that some Americans find instinctively offensive, but that doesn't mean we should abandon the Smart Grid.

As existing smart grid sub-markets become tougher places for upstarts to enter the market, don’t be surprised to see VCs flocking to an emerging application segment of the grid – “The ...

The Smart Grid Gotland PV installation is located just east of Visby, comprising an area of 1000 sq m (10,760 sq ft) for the ground-based PV plant. The complex consists of three single-phase ...