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The Smart Grid: Enabling Energy Efficiency and Demand Response Clark W. Gellings
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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. Like the universe itself, Smart Grid data is in an expansion phase. Energy saved is energy produced. Not only are utilities attracted to this new concept but governments see smart grids as a way to increase both energy efficiency and energy security, as well as reduce carbon emissions. 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. The energy trend today is moving rapidly towards integrated networks, which requires better management of assets, peak demand and better response to faults. The following are the views of Shri. EnerNOC, for instance, has acquired a series of businesses including building energy efficiency software and wireless controls — markets potentially much bigger than demand response. Honeywell's decades-long experience designing and implementing demand response and energy efficiency programs for utilities will serve as the foundation for Smart Grid Solutions. The Federal Government Further, smart grids allow new services such as sending real time consumption information to users and demand response, and enable the seamless integration of renewable energy, electric vehicles and other novel energy resources. Most of the system planners believe- Intelligently planned smart grid and smart meter systems that integrate energy efficiency and conservation as central goals will have a great potential to reap system-wide benefits. Big Smart Grid data consists of large datasets enabled by the Smart Grid that create value for data owners and data users. Energy efficiency should be encouraged through effective demand-side management (DSM) programmes for customers and general awareness programmes for the public at large. Utilities and other energy service providers need this type of consumer data to effectively enlist support for future energy efficiency and demand response campaigns and programs that reward changes in energy consumption. 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.