Written by Chad Blevins on February 1, 2010 – 9:42 pm
Smart Grid Industry Survey Clint Wheelock — February 1, 2010 If your company or organization is involved in the Smart Grid industry, Pike Research would like to invite you to participate in a new survey, which focuses on market participants’ plans and opinions regarding utility Smart Grid deployments. Your responses will help advance the industry [...]
Written by Chad Blevins on January 27, 2010 – 4:47 pm
News Analysis Finally, Sophisticated Command and Control Comes to Smart Grid Jan 26, 2010 There’s still a long way to go, but the Smart Grid is finally getting the sophisticated ‘situational awareness’ it deserves. As utilities modernize their grids, they also need to modernize their control rooms. A while back Jesse did some consulting to Lockheed Martin. [...]
Written by Chad Blevins on January 14, 2010 – 5:55 am
Increasing distributed sources of variable generation will introduce greater stress on electricity distribution systems. Voltage and Var Optimization (VVO) will help by optimizing reactive resources and voltage control capabilities continuously throughout the year. Differing from the traditional approach using uncoordinated local controls, VVO uses real-time information and online system modeling to provide optimized and coordinated control for unbalanced distribution networks with [...]