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Role of Artificial Neural Networks in Microgrid

By Satish Balantrapu, Consultant, Infosys, November, 02, 2010 -

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Smart Distribution Grids: Beyond AMI

By Devendra Vishwakarma, Lead Consultant, Infosys Technologies Ltd., September, 15, 2010 - Smart Grid has changed the way utilities look at their grids and the way customers look at their electric utilities. It all started with AMI infrastructure investments and now its time to look beyond the AMI so that investments in to the AMI in the name of Smart Grids can be realized. This article tries to summarize a point of view on the Smart Distribution Grids.  more...
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A Useful Thing Happened on the Way to the Smart Grid: An Agile Grid, Part 5

By Stephen Hadden, Senior Consultant, R.W. Beck, an SAIC Company, August, 31, 2010 - When Will the Smart Grid Be Available?  more...
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Future Power Systems - what will they look like and the 'Smart Enterprise'

By Stephen Browning, Consultant, Electricity Efficiency, May, 25, 2010 -

The Power System of the Future will be radically different from today, with high penetration of unpredictable variable output renewables. We have a lot of potential new technology and control mechanisms to utilise.  more...
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Electricity 2.0 -- the smart grid

By Hermione Crease, Marketing Director, Sentec, March, 23, 2010 - Can you remember a time before the internet? Those long-gone days when information gathering meant a day in a dusty library. When mass communication meant hundreds of faxes and thousands of letters. It's hard to believe we ever managed to run businesses or social lives without it.  more...
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Smart Grid 2.0

By Jack Ellis, , , March, 15, 2010 - Back in 2005, a couple of engineers1 used the term "Smart Grid" to describe their vision of an advanced power system. Particularly in the aftermath of the 2003 Northeast Blackout, Smart Grid quickly became a convenient, attention-getting way to label anything remotely related to grid modernization. Just as "dot.com" described anything Internet at the turn of the century, "Smart Grid" now describes just about anything related to electricity.  more...
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Smart Forecasting for a Smarter Grid

By Michael Price, Specialist Leader, Deloitte Consulting LLP, February, 24, 2010 - Most successful smart metering programs focus on business process management to maximize benefits (e.g., operational improvements) enabled by an Advanced Metering Infrastructure (AMI). Improved data visibility, frequency, and quality enabled by AMI technologies, can enhance future-state business processes and allow the utility to truly reach the expectations of the large investment they are making. Smart metering is much more than the limited implementation of AMI networks and advanced, digital two-way communicating meters. Smart metering not only provides the ability to change what is done, but also, how, when, and where process tasks and activities are performed to support existing end-to-end business process execution and the implementation of entirely new smart metering processes. AMI technologies should not in themselves define business processes. Instead, AMI should be leveraged as one piece of an overall smart grid program aimed to ultimately improve the business (AMI is an important component of the solution, not the solution itself).  more...
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Tangled Network: Transmission or Meter Investments

By Kate Rowland, Managing Editor, Intelligent Utility Magazine, Energy Central, December, 23, 2009 - It's as old a debate as the chicken and the egg, and as complicated as the Gordian knot. Should utilities tackle transmission or customers first when making investments in a smarter grid?  more...
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Regulation and Smart Energy: Dealing with Uncertainty

By Bart Thielbar, Senior Research Analyst, Sierra Energy Group, a Division of Energy Central, December, 08, 2009 - Industry professionals are overwhelmed with calls for smart grid implementations and many utilities are moving in that direction. They are doing so, however, with much uncertainty regarding cost recovery and even more uncertainty regarding any potential return on their investments. For the most part, state regulators have been slow to provide meaningful answers or directions for utilities seeking to make investments that will make them more efficient and empower consumers. In fairness to the regulators, the issues require a thoughtful approach to the cost recovery issues and it seems reasonable that they will want to carefully consider potential impacts to consumers.  more...
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The Smart Grid Ready Framework, Part 2

By Larsh Johnson, President and CTO, eMeter Corporation, November, 25, 2009 - The first part of this two-part article covered the Smart Grid Ready Framework, and an overview of some of its components. This week, we will cover the final three.  more...
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