Regarding Smart Grid Standards
Once a standard for smart grid interoperation has been adopted by an official international standards development organization (SDO), such as IEEE or IEC, products developed to that standard should be able to easily communicate in…
A significant improvement in Demand Side Management communications technologies towards smart appliances direct control
Data has been transmitted across a national electricity grid for the first time, in what could be a significant step towards the creation of virtual power stations, where many thousands of homes and businesses combine…
The ELVIS (Electricity Verkko Information System) solution
Together, cognitive computing and Internet of Things are poised to transform whole industries — and nowhere is this more critical than the power industry where outages and system failures can have deep and lasting impacts. Fingrid,…
A test results: smart grid will cause chaos and blackouts
Although study after study has said smart meter integration will have no major effect on the grid, a new study found that widespread deployment will cause chaos on the electric grid. So, what is different…
Community Resilience & The Future Of Microgrids
The spate of extreme weather events in recent years has stirred up interest in the concept of “community resilience”—i.e., the creation of more reliable and resilient power grids. The debate rages on how best to…
Risky business? … On the evils of smart grid technology
New business models and emerging energy technologies, like rooftop solar, microgrids, and distributed generation could put affordable electricity and the reliability of the electric grid at risk unless the harmful effects of ratemaking subsidies are…
The rise of the energy cloud
The rise of the energy cloud is creating a change in the energy and utility landscape that will result in a fundamental reimagining of how the industry and the nation generates, stores, and consumes energy…
Cross-border France-Spain powerline
A 40-mile powerline crossing the border between Spain and France has officially been inaugurated. The line, called the Santa Llogaia-Baixas link, is meant to increase energy ties between the different nations in the European Union…
