News tagged with smart grid
Cisco outlines strategy for Smart Grid infrastructure
May 18, 2009 |
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Continuing its expansion into lucrative business niches, Cisco Systems on Monday will announce its entrance into the smart grid infrastructure market, which the company estimates will grow to $20 billion a year within the ...
Smart Grid Technology: Vulnerable To Hackers
Mar 23, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Smart Grids are digitally based electricity distribution and transmission systems and test have shown that a hacker can break into the system resulting in a massive blackout.
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Smart Charger Controller simplifies electric vehicle recharging (w/Video)
Apr 30, 2009 |
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Electric vehicle owners can plug in their cars and forget about them, knowing they'll get the cheapest electricity available and won't crash the grid - using a new technology called the Smart Charger Controller. ...
Funding A Greener Grid: How Obama plans to spend billions on modernizing the U.S. electrical network
Oct 29, 2009 |
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President Barack Obama announced on Tuesday that his administration plans to spend $3.4 billion on producing a safer, more efficient electrical grid. Obama underscored the need to find clean forms of energ ...
Report examines limits of national power grid simulations
May 07, 2009 |
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America's power grid today resembles the country's canal system of the 19th Century. A marvel of engineering for its time, the canal system eventually could not keep pace with the growing demands of transcontinental transportation.
Obama unveils historic power grid reform
Oct 27, 2009 |
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President Barack Obama Tuesday announced the largest modernization of the US electricity grid in history, in a 3.4-billion-dollar bid to launch a new era of renewable energy consumption.
Security researchers offer caution on smart grids
Jul 31, 2009 |
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(AP) -- The race to build a "smarter" electrical grid could have a dark side. Security experts are starting to show the dangers of equipping homes and businesses with new meters that enable two-way communication with utilities.
Benefits of a 'smart' power grid in debated
Apr 29, 2009 |
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When Kevin Linn of Coral Springs, Fla., received a special power meter last October, he was able to check his usage day by day and hour by hour via the Internet. He found spikes in midday when no one was home -- the water ...
'Smart' fridges stay cool by talking to each other
Jan 13, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- 'Smart' fridges that run on renewable electricity and are capable of negotiating the most energy efficient way to keep food cold have been developed by researchers from CSIRO’s Energy Transformed ...
With a smart grid, plug-in hybrid electric vehicles could have system benefits
Feb 26, 2007 |
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Xcel Energy announced the results of a six-month study related to plug-in hybrid electric vehicles (PHEVs) and how an increase in their popularity may affect Colorado. The study found that PHEVs may result in a reduction ...
US economic stimulus money fuels 'smart' power grid surge
Mar 22, 2009 |
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Electric grids are getting smarter in an IBM lab in Texas as the promise of billions of US economic stimulus dollars fuels a drive to make power delivery more efficient and greener.
Exploring Ways to Expand Power Grid
Aug 31, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- The U.S. will need to expand and modernize its outdated power transmission grid to incorporate more renewable energy sources, but balkanized ownership and regulation are going to make that process slow and ...
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