Smart Grid Library

Proxy Demand Response (DR) is a creative program that can be used to offset the need to build expensive peaker plants and help with the management of renewable sources of energy that are intermittent in nature, like wind and solar.  While the wholesale market has been operating in other states and later this year in [...]

I presented a session on Home Energy Management Systems (HEMS) Opportunities and Challenges last week, and one attendee commented that he had not previously heard of HEMS as separate components from Home Area Networks (HANs).  Too often the term HAN is used to describe all the intelligence and activity that occurs in Home Energy Management.  [...]

The developing Smart Grid portends opportunity and risk on both sides of the meter.  I spend enough time rhapsodizing about Smart Grid opportunities, so its time to look at some of the risks.  For customers, which could be utilities or end users, there are risks in selecting solutions that lack interoperability.  Will the smart meters a utility [...]