Excellence
The world is ready for Smart Grid. More than ready! Where it's been deployed, the benefits are real and the players have taken the leap to the next level. This chapter will explore progress and experiences with the Smart Grid to date, ranging from strategy and implementation approaches to matters of tactical execution, management and operations.
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Collaborating for a Smarter Grid
Transforming and building intelligence into the grid requires that all stakeholders work together toward a common goal -
Implementing the Smart Grid Program Management Office
Establishing a smart grid Program Management Office requires effective implementation through planning, discipline, and leadership. -
Managing the AMI Network
Organizational changes, new tools, and vendor collaboration have helped Oncor to monitor the performance and reliability of its AMI network -
Navigating the Road to Smart Grid: Modernizing the Critical Communication Infrastructure
The smart grid's communication layer requires a secure infrastructure that supports legacy systems and architecture, while being flexible and scalable enough to accommodate future changes -
The New Networking Requirements for the Smart Grid
Modernization of the electric power grid will require a wholesale improvement on today's legacy infrastructure in terms of performance, openness, security, and cost effectiveness -
Smart Grid Security and Architectural Thinking
Security design should be an integral part of the first phase of developing smart grid architecture to maximize its benefits and minimize future risks -
The Impact of Smart Grid on Climate Change
Smart grid technology introduces mechanisms that can positively influence climate change through levers such as integration of more renewable energy, facilitation of Plug-In Hybrid Electric Vehicle adoption, and through energy efficiency -
The Smart Micro Grid: IT challenges for energy distribution grid operators
The E-Energy moma project addresses the challenges of an open standards-based smart cell service platform for micro grid and smart home/business/building applications -
The Southern California Edison Smart Grid Strategy and Roadmap
SCE charts a course for the future through a collaborative project that has resulted in a clear smart grid vision, along with a strategy and roadmap to realization -
Microgrids in Rome
the La Sapienza Project in rome is applying the zero-miles sustainability concept to energy production through active use of a micro-energy grid -
Real-Time Demand Response
The advent of the smart grid requires a redesigning of the utilities environment with a focus on real-time capabilities for managing energy supply and demand -
Integrated Platform for Network Element Management
Transforming a traditional grid into a smart grid requires progressive instrumentation through smart devices, as well as the ability to monitor the health of these devices and manage their configuration in a much more holistic way -
Integrated Service Management for Utilities Excellence
A structured service management plan is a critical component of building smarter grids and deploying new technologies -
Creating Intelligence: Maximizing Value from Network Data
Adopting an enterprise approach to data management and combining data from all business units across the network are crucial steps in building intelligent networks -
Optimized Utility: Opportunities, Insights and Solutions
With the implementation of smart meter technology and the increasing volumes and types of data available to utility companies, the next challenge before the industry is turning this data into insights -
Realizing the Smart Grid Transformation: The CenterPoint Energy Business Transformation Strategy and Implementation Roadmap
CenterPoint Energy Houston Electric (CenterPoint Energy) and IBM jointly develop a business transformation strategy and implementation roadmap, focused on operational, financial and organizational considerations, to realize business goals driven by smart grid initiatives -
Best Practices for an Agile Utility
Change is the norm in the utility business and responding quickly to change is imperative, which is why IBM created the Business Process Optimization Reference Architecture to provide solutions that maximize business agility
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Convergence
- Extracting Multiple Value Streams From Smart Grid Architecture
- Secure Utilities from Generation to Consumers
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