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The Smart Grid: Enabling Energy Efficiency and Demand Response Clark W. Gellings
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Department of Energy to test new technologies and advanced analytical tools for the Smart Grid. NorthWestern This deployment is part of the Pacific Northwest Smart Grid Demonstration Project, a $178 million program funded by the U.S. A smart electrical power grid could decrease annual electric energy use and utility sector carbon emissions at least 12 percent by 2030, according to a new report from the Department of Energy's Pacific Northwest National Laboratory. Tendril Energize™ and Tendril Connect™ will be deployed to deliver consumer engagement and enable energy usage behavioral changes, and to provide demand response (DR) and load control benefits to NorthWestern Energy. "It is important that we look at all of the options that can help address and mitigate climate change," said Eileen Claussen, president of the Pew Center on Global Climate Change "and smart grid's role in enabling energy efficiency and other climate-friendly It will try to demonstrate that demand response and energy storage solutions can dynamically complement renewable resources – and avoid the building of new fossil-fuel power plants to fill the availability gaps and peak needs. System and enables more visibility and control of both the existing electricity infrastructure and new "smart" components, such as smart meters, automated demand response, plug-in electric vehicles and electricity storage devices. EnerNOC, for instance, has acquired a series of businesses including building energy efficiency software and wireless controls — markets potentially much bigger than demand response. There are also more smart grid-focused projects underway that could also automate commercial buildings for energy efficiency and demand response. With a smart grid, utilities can meet next generation demand response challenges, optimize local grid efficiency, predict power outages before they occur and rapidly restore service, and implement other services. While it has slightly fewer megawatts under management than EnerNOC, it's also pursuing different opportunities, most recently with its Apollo platform, which enables DR over smart meters as well as its traditional pager networks.