http://www.smartgridnews.com/artman/publish/Business_Strategy/Cisco-smart-grid-strategy-Failure-or-just-getting-started-3919.html

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From around the world: 5 groundbreaking smart grid projects - http://www.smartgridnews.com/artman/publish/news/From-around-the-world-5-groundbreaking-smart-grid-projects-3816.html

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Smart grid challenges in 3 key markets - Brazil, China & S Korea - http://www.renewableenergyworld.com/rea/blog/post/2011/07/smart-grid-challenges-in-three-key-markets

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Renewable Integration: Solving the Volatility of a Smart Grid

In addition to frequency regulation and spinning reserve, advanced energy storage technology, including lithium ion battery systems, helps facilitate the increased penetration of renewable energy sources to the grid. Energy storage addresses the inherent variability of wind and solar, which is one of the key remaining hurdles to renewable adoption within the current power infrastructure. With the increased penetration of renewable generation, the grid is experiencing a shift from predictable dispatchable generation to variable non-dispatchable generation. This adds a new level of uncertainty and volatility to the grid that causes an array of problems as the relative proportion of variable generation vs. traditional dispatchable generation increases.

More from here - http://www.renewableenergyworld.com/rea/news/article/2011/06/renewable-integration-solving-the-volatility-of-a-smart-grid

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$38m smart-grid project launches in Washington state

The communities of Pullman and Albion in Washington state are embarking upon a $38 million project to test and demonstrate the benefits of a smarter, more automated energy grid.

Being led by the energy company Avista Corporation, the project will feature technology from Tropos Networks and Itron. By automating part of the energy distribution system, Avista aims to increase system reliability and reduce outage time, incorporate renewable energy sources and provide customers with more tools and information to monitor their energy usage.

The project calls for the rollout of an advanced metering infrastructure (AMI), smart grid communications and distribution automation (DA) devices

http://www.greenbang.com/38m-smart-grid-project-launches-in-washington-state_18838.html

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USA Smart Grid Research - The move to modernize the United States’ power transmission grid so that renewable energy can more easily deliver on its potential is one which gained some steam in the past week. Another kw: Internet for energy - http://jcwinnie.biz/wordpress/?p=3196

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India Considering Off-Grid Renewable Options for Rural Electrification - A 2001 census showed that 519,570 villages in India do not have power. While many of the villages are grid-accessible, the process of getting them hooked up has been slow. Answer? Renewable, community-based distributed grids. The ministry for new and renewable energy sources has estimated a potential for 84,776 mwe grid-interactive power generation from non-conventional sources, like agro residues, wind power, small hydro projects, cogeneration from bagasse and from industrial wastes. - http://www.treehugger.com/files/2007/04/india_electricity.php

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GridPoint buys V2Green to charge electric cars - Smart-grid outfit GridPoint, flush with an additional $120 million in equity funding, said it has acquired V2Green, a start-up with software to charge electric cars en masse. The company makes software for utilities to better integrate distributed generation units, such as solar panels, and home devices, such as Internet-connected thermostats, into the power grid. It also makes a home energy storage unit and software for consumers to track their energy usage - http://news.cnet.com/8301-11128_3-10049104-54.html?part=rss&tag=feed&subj=GreenTech

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Net metering allows reverse electricity flow - Net metering allows surplus energy from your solar power system to flow back into the grid and you get credit for contributing to the grid -

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USA Smart Grid Research - The move to modernize the United States’ power transmission grid so that renewable energy can more easily deliver on its potential is one which gained some steam in the past week. Another kw: Internet for energy - http://jcwinnie.biz/wordpress/?p=3196

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Peak Shaving & Distributed Generation - Peak shaving using distributed generation in such as way that it turns on during peak demand hours (for instance when grid power costs the highest)...this is one way by which energy management can be done more efficiently using distributed energy production and distribution -

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Efergy Smart Electricity Meter helps you cut down energy consumption - Have you ever realized the amount of energy you exploit and carbon emissions you are responsible for? Now, this becomes feasible with Efergy Smart Electricity Meter that hands out an exact energy consumption analysis. Updates every six minute would never allow you to be neglectful toward the planet on the whole. - http://www.ecofriend.org/entry/eco-gadget-efergy-smart-electricity-meter-helps-you-cut-down-energy-c

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Net metering in US and other countries - Net metering is catching on - 35 US states offer it. Canada, Japan, Germany, Switzerland also have net metering -

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USA Smart Grid Research - The move to modernize the United States’ power transmission grid so that renewable energy can more easily deliver on its potential is one which gained some steam in the past week. Another kw: Internet for energy - http://jcwinnie.biz/wordpress/?p=3196

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Net metering allows reverse electricity flow - Net metering allows surplus energy from your solar power system to flow back into the grid and you get credit for contributing to the grid -

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Sentilla, Energy monitor co sees $7.5 million in funding round - Sentilla makes energy management technology for industrial and commercial facilities. It has secured $7.5 million in Series B funding from Onset Ventures and Claremont Creek Ventures. The energy-management tech company has patented technology that allows people to use microcomputers to remotely monitor the energy consumption of industrial machines, and allow those machines to exchange data with one another, to collaboratively direct energy supplies to facilities as needed. http://www.sentilla.com - http://news.cnet.com/8301-11128_3-10134459-54.html?part=rss&tag=feed&subj=GreenTech

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Selling energy back to the grid - Utilities in 30 US states allow people to sell electricity back to the gird (2002 data) -

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Google, GE to Collaborate on Smart Grid, Geothermal - GE and Google don’t have a lot in common, but the industrial giant and the Internet powerhouse share an interesting in renewable energy. So they have come together to lobby for a so-called smart electricity grid and to collaborate, albeit in an unspecified way, in research into geothermal energy. - http://www.theenergycollective.com/TheEnergyCollective/28035

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Net metering in US and other countries - Net metering is catching on - 35 US states offer it. Canada, Japan, Germany, Switzerland also have net metering -

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Energy audits in the US - Energy audits for US homes could become a popular thing, to make their homes more green and more energy efficient -

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