Convergence
New technological developments, new industry models and advanced analytics & optimization techniques are rapidly changing the industry. the industry’s research and development ecosystem, made up of a broad cross-section of energy providers, vendors and alliances, are working on a range of advanced technologies and experimenting with demonstration projects. renewables, Home Area networks, nuclear generation and hybrid electric vehicles have all attracted significant attention, and this chapter will help to illuminate some of the exciting changes and possibilities.
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Backhaul Networks: Customizing Solutions
Designing and implementing a wireless backhaul network for a city wide smart meter and smart grid network has many challenges, but technical hurdles have solutions -
Evolution: Smart Grid Technology Requires Creating New Business Models
The electric power sector should employ industry model innovation to develop business platforms that maximize smart grid capabilities -
Optimizing Demand Response to Improve Economic Dispatch and Reliability
New technologies require a more refined system for employing demand response techniques for smaller commercial and residential customers within the smart grid -
Seeking Balance: Conservation, a Smarter Approach Until Renewable Resources Become Cost Effective and Scalable
An increased focus on conservation can be the interim step needed while utilities discover an effective solution that balances current capabilities and future needs -
Smarter Nuclear Power: Using a Maturity Model to Help Prepare for the Nuclear Renaissance
The nuclear industry is experiencing a re-birth requiring new tools to ensure safe, efficient, and effective business operations -
The Benefits of Smart Grid Business Software
A smart grid business software solution encompasses a wide variety of applications that work together to revolutionize business processes -
The New Era in Distributed Generation: Delivering Resources to Every Corner of the World
Increasing global energy demands and growing attention to environmental issues require reliable, high-quality power supplies and the use of renewable energy sources -
The Smart Grid and Key Research Technical Challenges
The numerous technological innovations needed to enable the smart grid require integrated collaboration between utilities, governments, industries, and academia -
Extracting Multiple Value Streams From Smart Grid Architecture
As utilities equip the medium and low voltage levels of their grids with new instrumentation, an opportunity exists to leverage these investments across multiple utility functions, thereby extending the smart grid business case -
The Future of the Utility Communication Services Environment
As the utilities industry goes through this period of modernization, driven by emerging smart grid capabilities, so too must the telecommunications environment modernize -
Implementing Security Across the Components of an Advanced Metering System
An approach to formulating and implementing an end-to-end security solution across the various system components of the AMS infrastructure -
Smart Grid Communication Networks
A side-by-side comparison of licensed versus unlicensed spectrum By Todd Ellis, Sensus -
The Role of Advanced Analytics in the Intelligent Utility Network
Challenges in planning and operating an Intelligent Utility Network provide opportunities for innovative uses of optimization technologies -
End-to-End Interoperability Testing of a Smart Meter Solution in a World of Evolving Standards
The integration of Home Area Network devices with smart meter technology requires proactive testing and communication between organizations within the industry in order to provide utilities customers with a seamless plug-and-play experience -
Secure Utilities from Generation to Consumers
Utilities must integrate security systems within the smart grid as part of infrastructure lifecycle management in order to protect against serious security breaches -
International electrotechnical Commission - Common information Model (CiM) enabling SmartGrid interoperability
Smart Grid and the Value of Industry Standards -
A Smarter Planet Partnership Solution: Making Smart Meters Work
In conjunction with Cable&Wireless Worldwide
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