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Smart Green Grid Software meets the not-so-Smart Modern Electric Grid

The green movement is creating new market opportunities for developing The following new green technologies. Technology is an intelligent network software. The companies, both traditional and emerging, which will soon be affected by the way has been deployed and adopted as a move to some version of peak load or variable price.

The modern power grid is not modern, has hardly changed in sixty-five. Most network systems today involves the transmission and distribution networks that connect power plants to end users. These systems depend centralized electricity movies and bottlenecks bottlenecks where infrastructure damage may disrupt service to thousands of customers, if not more. Power systems today are ill equipped to handle the demands of the post-modern economy, which, with the increasing use of digital applications that require more load and UPS.

Part of the problem is information – information systems in current supply flows in one direction only, from consumers to utilities. Companies know that the energy charges and where they are, but they struggle to meet peak power successfully marginal. Consumers have no idea (besides learning about the report on the evening news) that the load demand on the grid and are therefore not able to make decisions based on the use of such information.

The other part of the problem is logistical: Energy Systems is now based on centralized power plants, which send power over the transmission of several distribution substations, which then send energy distribution networks to end users. To meet the growing demand for advanced local surplus areas, generators must be kept in reserve so they can be brought online as needed. Power, mostly can not be shipped from another region to help meet demand. Since almost 10% of the total power capacity is needed as little as 1% of the time, this means that many emergency generators to small shops that are needed to meet demand in rapidly changing (eg, large groups would be too long to boot).

Intelligent network systems are an attempt to remedy the shortcomings of the DC network by changing the flow of information and logistics. The use of new network systems of Internet connections among power plants, electricity meters, and energy development as long as the flow of information network status of a bilateral process between distributors and consumers. This allows consumers to make better decisions about their electricity consumption, which may even make automatically through smart electricity meters.

Smart Grid systems change the nature of the logistics of the transport network and system centralized distribution model to a decentralized network, where excess energy can be transmitted from one region to another as needed. Even better is the ability devices for energy storage in homes (such as plug-in hybrid) devices and power generation such as residential panels to supply solar energy to the grid during peak hours.

The aim of the intelligent network system to increase the reliability and efficiency of power transmission on two fronts: (1) decentralized power generation with households that are customers and suppliers, (2) Improving energy consumption. Consumers are now in the driver's seat and are better able to make more accurate decisions about how they use energy.

Test programs have intelligent networks increased steadily in recent years. Enel SpA of Italy has built an intelligent network that serves 27 million Italians in 2005. Enel essentially invented the concept through The smart meters have two-way communication between the company and consumers of energy. Austin Energy electric company in Texas, has worked on issues similar initiative to replace all electricity meters with smart meters by December 2008.

The project GridWise Olympic Peninsula a study of Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, owners of homes equipped with digital thermostats and computer controllers, water heaters and dryers. Owners participants were able to set preferences for the operation of these devices according to their own preferences. The average household in the study saved over 10% of their electricity consumption throughout the year. A subset of the program used the price of sensitive parameters of the electricity price for different depending Load electrical power and performance of the devices are being developed to respond to electricity prices – These customers have saved more.

For companies seeking to capitalize on the future development of intelligent network technology, it would be worth reviewing all the energy used in their businesses. Deepen knowledge of the use of this energy can be time well spent as from an understanding of inventory opportunities to sell electricity to the network will help companies position themselves to leverage the technology of The Green Grid to reduce costs and even gain new revenue streams.

Since the crisis energy has a dramatic effect on the global economy, it is urgent to begin planning now to help protect your company from the costs of energy.

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From Gary W Patterson, www.FiscalDoctor.com Copyright 2008

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