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Smart Grid Resources and Information. A good Wikipedia resource - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smart_grid
Communications Companies - See Communications Networks Page.
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Companies
Accenture - Energy - Energy Consultants Page. Also, involved in Smart Grid activities.
Aegis Technologies - has focused on enhancing existing Control System performance, troubleshooting and security characteristics without affecting reliability. Our technology enhances IP based Control Systems equally well, as we understand this is an up and coming future technology. Today, we are the only tested and deployed developer and manufacturer that integrates banking industry-strength security for your existing Serial or IP based Control System and offers a return on your investment through improved troubleshooting tools and system performance. If you are an Electric Utility, Our OdysseyTM Product Series can help your company achieve NERC CIP Compliance on a number of their important issues.
Locations: Phoenix, Arizona; Atlanta, Georgia, Houston, Texas, Minneapolis, Minnesota.
Website: http://aegistech.us
Alcatel-Lucent - Energy - Industry - Suppliers. Also, involved in Smart Grid activities.
Ambient Communications - Energy - BPL Page. Also, involved in Smart Grid activities.
http://www.ambientcorp.com/smartgrid.html
Arcadian Networks - Energy - Communications Networks. Also, involved in Smart Grid activities.
Areva - Energy - Generation Page. Also, involved in Smart Grid activities.
Augusta Systems - powers intelligent enterprise networks. Augusta Systems products enable collaboration and communication between enterprise networks and edge assets – sensors, actuators, wireless sensor networks, RFID systems, imagery devices and other edge-of-network systems and devices – which have existed beyond the reach of these networks. With platforms for building and managing solutions featuring data from edge assets, Augusta Systems provides simplified data integration, processing, correlation and communication capabilities for Network 2.0-enabled enterprises. Augusta Systems technologies and integration services – including core products SensorBridge®, EdgeFrontier and SensorPort – support security, monitoring, automation, asset tracking and other enterprise applications. Through key partnerships, Augusta Systems also offers integrated monitoring and control products, including ThreatViewer® and GridMonitor™. These technologies reduce the total cost of ownership for intelligent enterprise networks and maximize return on investment for enterprise networks and edge assets.
Locations: Morgantown, West Virginia.
Website: http://www.augustasystems.com
Autodesk - Make it easy for all electric and gas utility departments to integrate, access, and share design and as-built information across business processes. With Autodesk software solutions, utilities can extend the reach and value of infrastructure asset information: more easily handle customer requests, more quickly respond to outages, and more effectively provide information for reporting and decision analysis.
Website: http://usa.autodesk.com/adsk/servlet/index?siteID=123112&id=10109729
Aztech Associates - specializes in conservation and demand management (CDM) accessories for the utilities industry (Aztech Meter Accessories) and remote monitoring and control (SCADA), utilizing terrestrial and satellite wireless systems. We are experts in low power designs. We can integrate seamlessly with major meter manufacturers' devices for In-Home Displays (IHD). We have complete vertical solutions for SCADA utilizing the satellite or terrestrial wireless connection of your choice.
Locations: Kingston, Ontario; Annapolis, Maryland.
Website: http://www.aztechinc.com
Black & Veatch - Energy Consultants Page. Has a service offering - Smart Utility, to provide full-scope solutions in the development and implementation of today's Smart Grid technologies.
BPL Global - provides electric utilities with Smart Grid Systems and Services that optimize load, deliver major cost savings, achieve higher service reliability, and energy efficiency, benefiting electric utilities and their customers. BPL Global provides electric utility executives and multi-occupancy building property managers with Broadband Solutions and Services to enable a communication infrastructure for Smart Grid applications and the broadband triple play — data, voice, and video. Their strategy includes deal consortiums and being technology agnostic. Website. Management. Board Of Directors. Advisory Board: No. Locations: France; Kuwait; Philippines; San Francisco, California; Brazil. Acquired Serveron (See below) in Jan 08. *
Broadband Energy Networks (BEN) - develops information-based solutions that improve the efficiency, comfort and safety of businesses, buildings and homes. The Company’s building and home automation products and services use the Internet to automatically manage energy use and security, and to deliver related information to both users and providers. We are a leading supplier of networked automation products & services that control the use of critical operating resources – electricity, gas, water, heating and cooling, information, communications and secure access. BEN delivers the only standards-based, open-protocol and multi-network solution on the market today. BEN’s products will operate with both new and existing building systems from a wide range of manufacturers. BEN’s products and services give customers the ability to better monitor and manage buildings and homes; they can also be used in industrial process control, appliance diagnostics and health care. Broadband Energy is the technology group within GridPlex Inc. (see below) that develops information-based solutions that improve the efficiency, comfort and safety of businesses, buildings and homes. Previously Coactive Networks.
Advisory Board: http://www.broadbandenergynetworks.com/team.shtml
Customers: DTE Energy.
People: http://www.broadbandenergynetworks.com/team.shtml
Website: http://www.broadbandenergynetworks.com/
Carina Technology - , a technology hardware and software firm that provides Utility Information Solutions through its patented CarinaPoint™ and CarinaXchange™ Energy Management Solutions. Carina enables energy providers to manage operations more efficiently through applications such as Meter Data Management, remote meter reading, Demand Side Management, & remote disconnect/reconnect.
Advisory Board: No.
Board of Directors: http://www.carinatek.com/about/board.html
Location: Huntsville, Alabama.
People: http://www.carinatek.com/about/management.html
Website: http://www.carinatek.com/
ClickSoftware - Whether you are an electric, gas, or water utility, trying to balance all these expectations without the right tools can be a Herculean task. But with ClickSoftware's service optimization solutions, tailored to address the specific and varying needs of the utility industry, you will find it easier to keep your commitments to customers, reduce your operational costs, and respond to emergency situations as they arise.
Website: http://www.clicksoftware.com
Corporate Systems Engineering - Corporate Systems Engineering has been a pioneer of energy management solutions for electric utilities since 1978, with well over 20 years of continuous ownership and management. We are the largest provider of load control switches in the U.S., and we are actively engaged in the development of emerging AMI technology. Our forward thinking gives us a clear vision for the future of energy management technology. Our philosophy is to provide custom solutions that meet utility customers’ requirements, regardless of the size or complexity of their needs.
Locations: Indianapolis, Indiana.
People: No listing.
Website: http://www.corporatesystems.com
Digi International - From large Investor Owned Utilities (IOU) to small co-operatives, the utilities industry has recognized the benefits of IP-based communication technologies. At the substation level, however, much of the communication hardware requires an RS-232 serial interface and utilizes proprietary protocols between the field equipment and the applications. We solve these compatibility issues with interface converters and patented COM port redirector software, making it easy for you to: Network substation serial devices that use different protocols; Ethernet-enable serial devices in a SCADA application; Convert energy management panels to Ethernet; Gather real-time power metering data; Add embedded networking functionality to a meter design.
Locations: Minnetonka, Minnesota;
People: http://www.digi.com/aboutus/managementteam.jsp
Stock: NASDAQ: DGII - Yahoo - http://finance.yahoo.com/q?s=dgii
Website: http://www.digi.com
Duquesne Broadband - Energy - Communications Systems Page. Locations: Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Also, involved in Smart Grid activities.
Eka Systems - Energy - Communications Networks Page. Also, involved in Smart Grid activities.
Energate - Energy - Home Automation Also, involved in Smart Grid activities.
EnergySolve - Energy - ESCO Page. Also, involved in Smart Grid activities.
ESCO Technologies - produces engineered products and systems worldwide. Its Communications segment manufactures two-way power line communication systems, including meter modules and equipment for central stations and substations, as well as offers software and support services to the electric utility industry. It also provides wireless radio frequency (RF) data communications systems to the gas and water utilities for automatic meter reading applications. In addition, this segment manufactures video security monitoring systems for commercial and industrial applications. The company's Filtration segment supplies filter elements, assemblies, modules, indicators, and other related components to the commercial aerospace, military aerospace, and various industrial markets. It also offers flow control products, valves, and filters to the space, defense, and commercial industries, as well as produces highly engineered thermal-formed and security packaging products for medical, food, and electronics products. Its Test segment offers isolated environments, including RF test enclosures, acoustic test enclosures, RF and magnetically shielded rooms, secure communication facilities, and broadcast and recording studios. In addition, it provides design, program management, installation, and integration services; and components, including RF absorptive materials, RF filters, active compensation systems, antennas, antenna masts, turntables and electric and magnetic probes, RF test cells, proprietary measurement software, and other test accessories. Further, this segment offers various services, including calibration for antennas and field probes, chamber certification, field surveys, customer training, and various product tests. The company was founded in 1990. It was formerly known as ESCO Electronics Corporation and changed its name to ESCO Technologies, Inc. in 2000. *
Locations; St. Louis, Missouri.
Subsidiary:
Aclara Power Line
Subsidiary: Aclara RF
Subsidiary: Aclara Software
Subsidiary: Comtrak
Subsidiary: Doble Engineering
Subsidiary: ETS•Lindgren
Subsidiary: PTI
Subsidiary: TekPackaging
Subsidiary: VACCO
Website: http://www.escotechnologies.com
Yahoo Finance: http://finance.yahoo.com/q?s=ese
ESRI - Energy - Distribution Page. Also, involved in Smart Grid activities.
GE Energy - Energy - Industry - Suppliers.
Grid Net - a provider of open, interoperable, policy-based network management software, and communications product reference designs for the utility industry’s Smart Grid. Applying broadly adopted, proven innovations from enterprise software and telecommunications networking, Grid Net’s PolicyNet Smart Grid NMS™ software enables the delivery of secure, scalable and high-performing Smart Grid services, including Smart Metering and Distribution Automation. In 2008, Grid Net licensed its WiMAX smart meter reference design to GE Energy, for use in GE’s advanced meter product family based on the PolicyNet software. Privately held Grid Net is backed by world class investors Intel Capital, GE Energy Financial Services, and Catamount Ventures.
Locations: San Francisco, California.
Website: http://www.grid-net.com
GridPoint - They build intelligent energy management (IEM) products and services in order to fuel the adoption of clean energy technologies, empower users to manage their energy efficiency and ensure high-quality, reliable power.
Locations: Arlington, Virginia.
Website: http://www.gridpoint.com
GridPlex - a GridPlex Network installed in a community of 15,000 homes and businesses, representing less than 1/10 of 1% of US utility users, can save over $1.5M annually for the local utility and its customers, with a system payback of three years or less. GridPlex is composed of two operating business divisions: Broadband Energy, the GridPlex Technology Group, that develops the Company’s underlying automation and conservation technology, including hardware, software and services (see www.broadbandenergy.net); and GridPlex Network Services, the Network Affiliates Group, that operates the local and regional information networks that provide GridPlex services and solutions to utilities, communities and end-users.
Website: http://www.gridplex-inc.com/
Website: http://www.gridplexnetworks.com/
Infotility - a provider of intelligent agent software that enables utilities to dramatically increase the efficiency and utilization of grid assets. Our GridAgents’ software has specific applications on SmartGrid based energy networks used for integration of communities of renewables and distributed energy resources, Microgrid managment, intelligent load control and smart charging applications coordinating , including photovoltaics & storage, load control, and future assets such as plug-in hybrid cars. Our GridAgents' software is applicable to any community of smart devices or sensors on the Pervasive Internet in the Sensor-Tagged world, where latency, immediacy, complex analytic/business rules, end-point processing, and security are critical issues, and the overheads of complex database management systems are of concern.
Advisory Board: http://www.infotility.com/co-directors-advisors.html
Board Of Directors: http://www.infotility.com/co-directors-advisors.html
Locations: Boulder, Colorado.
People: http://www.infotility.com/co-management-team.html
Website: http://www.infotility.com
MainNet Communications - Energy - BPL Page. Also, involved in Smart Grid activities.
Nighthawk Systems - designs and manufactures easy to use 'plug and play' products that can remotely control virtually any electrical device from any location. Nighthawk products are easily installed and operated by anyone, regardless of technical capability. Nighthawk services customers in a variety of markets including electric utilities, traffic control, computer systems, commercial lighting, and irrigation.
Locations: San Antonio, Texas.
Website: www.nighthawksystems.com
Optimal Technologies - develops solutions to help power utilities, businesses and consumers optimize their energy usage. Optimal’s product suite includes supply side electric power grid optimization and analysis software, called AEMPFAST™ (aim-fast), and a demand side energy efficiency and automation system called SUREFAST™. The company’s mission is to enable a more efficient, reliable and environmentally responsible electric power grid. Optimal's unique products and services have the potential to create unprecedented industry, economic, environmental and consumer benefits worldwide.
Website: http://www.otii.com/index.htm
PowerGrid Communications - provides smart grid services. See Energy - BPL Page.
PCN Technology - designs, develops and commercializes embedded subsystem module solutions that utilize conducted mediums for data communication, control, networking and simultaneous energy management. PCN products allow customers to utilize existing infrastructure, such as powerlines and other conducted medium infrastructure creating the backbone for “non-traditional” IT networks. Bridging to other wired and wireless based systems, PCN provides for the overall routing and switching of data to other products and systems. Partners and customers gain advanced networking and communication increasing the abilities and efficiencies of processes while simultaneously decreasing cost, weight, bulk, and heat among other. PCN products are open standards and interoperable. Locations: Santa Clara, California.
Locations: Santa Clara, California.
People: http://www.pcntechnology.com/about_PCN.php
Website: http://www.pcntechnology.com
PowerGrid Communications - BPL provider. Entergy and Austin Energy are customers. PowerGrid offers a variety of services for energy distribution companies based on hardware from manufacturers.
Locations: Boise, Idaho.
People: http://www.powergridcomm.com/execs.htm
Website: http://www.powergridcomm.com
RuggedCom - a provider of rugged communications networking solutions designed for mission-critical applications in harsh environments. Our robust technology solutions include Ethernet switches, network routers, wireless devices, serial servers, media converters, software (proprietary embedded software and application software) and professional services. RuggedCom products are designed for use in harsh environments such as those found in electrical power substations, oil refineries, military applications, roadside traffic control cabinets and metals and minerals processing. RuggedCom is well positioned to capitalize on emerging trends within the rugged communications industry, including the growing worldwide demand for IP-based communications networks suitable for harsh environments and the global initiative to integrate communications networks with electric power grids, known as ‘‘Smart Grids’’.
Locations: Woodbridge, Ontario.
Website: http://www.ruggedcom.com
Serveron - provides technology and services that continually monitor the performance of electric utility assets - especially transformers. Acquired by BPL Global (see above).
Advisory Board: No.
Locations: Hillsboro, Oregon.
People: No listing.
Telemetric - Energy - Communications Systems Page. Locations: Boise, Idaho. Also, provides distribution monitoring solutions.
Advisory Board: http://www.tendrilinc.com/about-us/board/
Board Of Directors: http://www.tendrilinc.com/about-us/board/
Locations: Boulder, Colorado.
People: http://www.tendrilinc.com/about-us/staff/
Website: http://www.tendrilnetworks.com
Tollgrade - Energy - Monitoring Page. Also, involved in Smart Grid activities.
Trilliant Networks - standards-based, state-of-the-art devices. They include different options (retrofit, external box), to cover all needs for electric, gas and water meter data collection and management. The utility will find all the appropriate solutions for its different requirements. Features includes, 2-way intelligence, ease of installation, data reduction, remote programmability and device-resident storage.
Locations: Redwood City, California; Seattle, Washington, Ontario, Quebec.
Website: http://www.trilliantinc.com/
Consultants
Horizon Energy Group - a small company created to provide meaningful, value-added services in the energy industry for optimization of client systems performance, for programs and projects, and for developing energy strategies and technologies in the next generation. Arcadian Networks, EnerNex Corporation, GridAgents, Horizon Energy Group LLC and UTInnovation LLC, today announced a strategic services alliance, called NextGrid NOW at GridWeek 2007.
Locations: Maryville, Tennessee; Forsyth, Illinois.
Advisory Board: No Listing.
Equipment and Software Providers
ABB - a technology-based provider of power and automation products, systems, solutions, and services.
Advanced Control Systems (ACS) - Established in 1975, Advanced Control Systems (ACS), Inc. is a leading provider of smart grid solutions to the global electric power industry. The ACS software suite provides integrated distribution and outage management, simulation, optimization, and enterprise business intelligence. ACS automation product lines include a wide range of flexible and cost-effective substation, distribution, and feeder automation solutions. ACS is powering the utility of the future – today.
Locations: Norcross, Georgia.
Website: http://www.acsatlanta.com
Airak - Medium Voltage Sensors and complete Distribution System monitoring. Locations: Ashburn, Virginia. Advisory Board: Link.
Endeavor Engineering - Our main goal is to provide data system consulting and design services, whether the project is small or large. We attempt to reduce the costs associated with data/automation system development and maintenance by taking advantage of any applicable open or "de facto" standards available. Using available standards provides more options in the development process and reduced cost, and as requirements change later it is much easier to modify the computing system.
Locations: Hillsboro, Oregon.
Website: http://www.endeavoreng.com/endeavor/index.html
Freewave - Energy - Substation Automation Page. Locations: Boulder, Colorado.
GridAgents - Infotility Brand - See Infotility above.
Industrial Defender - Today's power marketplace places increasing demands on monitoring and control of generation assets. In a deregulated market power generators must now be more flexible and responsive to performance based rate contracts, rather than producing to predictable base loading. Power, oil & gas and even telecommunications companies are merging to become convergent energy and utility companies, increasing the diversity of assets and systems. On top of these challenges power companies are faced with compliance to various security regulations emerging worldwide, such as the NERC CIP standard in the United States, NISCC in the United Kingdom and ENISA in the European Union.
Locations: Foxborough, Massachusetts; and many others.
Website: http://www.industrialdefender.com/industries/power.php
Oracle Utilities - powers the information-driven enterprise by offering a complete, integrated solution for every segment of the utilities industry—from generation and transmission to distribution and retail services. And when you run Oracle applications on Oracle technology, you speed implementation, optimize performance, and maximize ROI.
Website: http://www.oracle.com/industries/utilities/electricity.html
Point Six - a Wireless Solutions Provider putting the latest RF and IR technology to work to enhance productivity and increase profits. More than a radio company, Point Six Wireless combines wireless (RF & IR) data transmission with extensive array of sensors and application specific modules suited for a variety of common applications. Point Six works closely with OEMs in dozens of industries to capitalize on the benefits of wireless technology. All products are general purpose in design and appeal to a broad customer base. Typical deployments include traffic light automation, food safety, energy management, access control, fire safety and trucking. The Point Six value proposition is based on the ability to engineer application specific solutions ranging from basic telemetry to wireless networking. This value arises from Point Six's application awareness and the command of innovative, high value designs. In addition to application specific solutions, Point Six Wireless also offers a complete line of general purpose products for the transmission of Ethernet, serial, Modbus, Weigand, analog, discrete or sensor based data.
Locations: Lexington, Kentucky.
Website: http://www.pointsix.com/
Schweitzer Engineering Laboratories (SEL) - introduced the world's first digital relay in 1984, revolutionizing the power protection industry by offering fault locating and other features for a fraction of the cost of earlier systems. In the years since, SEL has grown and developed a complete line of products and services for the protection, monitoring, control, automation, and metering of electric power systems. Their work in Smart Grid City will focus on the "smart substation" effort. Website.
Locations: Pullman, Washington
Partnered with Xcel Energy on Boulder Smart Grid Project.
Website: http://selinc.com/aboutsel.htm
Telvent - is the company that delivers IT for a sustainable and secure world through high value-added products, services and integrated solutions in the energy, transportation, environment and public administration industry segments, as well as global IT services.
Locations: Houston, Texas; and many others.
Website: http://www.telvent.com
Electricity page: http://www.telvent.com/solutions/energy/electric/transmition_and_distribution.asp
UISOL - See Utility Integration Solutions (below)
Utility Integration Solutions - helped more than 40 utility industry companies improve customer service, increase reliability, and streamline their market operation and settlement processes through the application of smart business integration. Operating from locations across the United States, UISOL consultants help our customers transform key business processes in areas including: Smart Metering, Demand Response, Meter Data Management, Mobile Work Management, Distribution Outage Management, Power Marketing and Procurement, Market Operations and Settlement, and Smart Grid/Distribution Automation.
Locations: Lafayette, California.
People: http://uisol.com/new/category/leadership/
Website: http://uisol.com
Ventyx - is the world’s largest private software provider to the utility industry, delivering best-of-breed business solutions backed by deep industry expertise to maximize operational and financial performance for more than 900 customers around the world. Ventyx’s role in Smart Grid City will include providing work management solutions for deploying smart grid technologies; MRO management for work and service requests triggered by the smart grid; and planning and analytics for price and load forecasts and decision support for connecting customer actions to trading and investment decisions in real time.
Headquarters: Atlanta, Georgia.
Website: http://www1.ventyx.com/
Partnered with Xcel Energy on Boulder Smart Grid Project.
Initiatives
Advanced Grid Applications Consortium - a group of utilities that join together to help modernize the US Grid. Website.
Grid 2030 - Department of Energy Vision Statement for the Grid in 2030 - PDF.
Gridwise PNNL - A DOE program focused on developing information technology to modernize the U.S. electrical grid. Working with the GridWise Alliance, the program invests in communications architecture and standards; simulation and analysis tools; smart technologies; test beds and demonstration projects; and new regulatory, institutional, and market frameworks. Technological basis for Gridwise - page link.
Gridwise Alliance - GridWise Alliance is a consortium of public and private stakeholders who are aligned around a shared vision. A vision of an electric system that integrates the infrastructure, processes, devices, information and market structure so that energy can be generated, distributed, and consumed more efficiently and cost effectively; thereby achieving a more resilient, secure and reliable energy system. The Alliance members recognize that emerging energy and information technologies have the potential to radically improve the efficient use of the nation’s energy system. The Alliance and its members advocate change locally, regionally, and nationally to promote new policies and technology solutions that move us closer to this vision. The Alliance provides a forum where members representing a broad range of interests in the electricity sector can meet, exchange ideas, and work cooperatively on a common set of issues, with the goal of moving our industrial-age electric grid into the information age. In addition, the Alliance provides its members with opportunities to interact with senior policy makers on both the federal and state level who, together with industry, will transform the nation’s electric power system.
Website. Members: Serveron, IBM, Cisco, GE, SAP, ... *
GridWise Architecture Council - The GridWise Architecture Council (GWAC) is a team of industry leaders who are shaping the guiding principles, or architecture, of a highly intelligent and interactive electric system—one ripe with decision-making information exchange and market-based opportunities. This architecture will provide guidelines for interaction between participants and interoperability between technologies and systems. The Council is neither a design team, nor a standards making body. Our role is to help identify areas for standardization that allow significant levels of interoperation between system components. We are helping to outline a philosophy of inter-system operation that preserves the freedom to innovate, design, implement and maintain each organization's portion of the electrical system.
Website *
Gridwise Expo - Conference site for Gridwise. Website.
GridWorks - A program activity in the U.S. Department of Energy's Office of Electricity Delivery and Energy Reliability (OE). Its aim is to improve the reliability of the electric system through the modernization of key grid components: cables and conductors, substations and protective systems, and power electronics. Website.
Illinois Smart GFrid Initiative - The ISGI is a public-private working group formed to engage Illinoisans in examining the nature and potential benefits of a modernized electric grid, and to map a policy path for achieving those benefits for consumers and the economy.
Locations: Chicago, Illinois.
Website: http://www.ilsmartgrid.org/
Intelligent Utility Network - coalition to accelerate smart grid technologies - including IBM, CenterPoint Energy, ... Website.
IntelliGrid - Electric Power Research Institute’s (EPRI's) IntelliGridSM initiative is creating the technical foundation for a smart power grid that links electricity with communications and computer control to achieve tremendous gains in reliability, capacity, and customer services. A major early product is the IntelliGrid Architecture, an open-standard, requirements-based approach for integrating data networks and equipment that enables interoperability between products and systems. This program provides utilities with the methodology, tools and recommendations for standards and technologies when implementing systems such as advanced metering, distribution automation, demand response, and wide-area measurement. The program also provides utilities with independent, unbiased testing of technologies and vendor products.
Link: http://www.epri.com/IntelliGrid/ http://intelligrid.epri.com/
IntelliGrid Architecture - Architecture for the Intelligent Electricity, Energy and Utility Services Grid of the Future. This site contains the documentation associated with the IntelliGrid Architecture Project. The IntelliGrid Architecture is a world-wide and industry-wide project to develop the infrastructures necessary to support the next generation of energy conversion, delivery and end-use systems. The IntelliGrid Architecture builds upon work within several developing and emerging open standards to enable not only interoperable equipment but provide a framework for the development of the next generation of automation applications.
Website: http://publish.intelligrid.info/
Modern Grid Initiative (MGI) - The National Energy Technology Laboratory (NETL), part of DOE’s national laboratory system, is owned and operated by the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE). NETL supports DOE’s mission to advance the national, economic, and energy security of the United States. The only U.S. national laboratory devoted to fossil energy research, NETL implements a broad spectrum of energy and environmental research and development (R&D) programs that will return benefits for generations to come: Enabling domestic coal, natural gas, and oil to economically power our Nation’s homes, industries, businesses, and transportation … While protecting our environment and enhancing our energy independence. NETL has expertise in coal, natural gas, and oil technologies, contract and project management, analysis of energy systems, and international energy issues. In addition to research conducted onsite, NETL’s project portfolio includes R&D conducted through partnerships, cooperative research and development agreements, financial assistance, and contractual arrangements with universities and the private sector. Together, these efforts focus a wealth of scientific and engineering talent on creating commercially viable solutions to national energy and environmental problems.
NextGrid Now Alliance - Advanced Control Systems (ACS), a leading global provider of smart grid solutions to the electric power industry, announced today that it has joined with Arcadian Netwo7rks, EnerNex Corporation, GridAgents, Horizon Energy Group LLC and UTInnovation LLC as a founding member in the NextGrid Now Alliance. NextGrid Now will focus on the smart grid requirements of municipal and cooperative utilities. For over 32 years ACS has delivered value through innovation to rural electric cooperatives and municipalities.
Ontario's Smart Grid Forum - Ontario’s electricity sector has begun a broad-based industry dialogue to develop a vision for a provincial smart grid that will provide consumers with more efficient, responsive and cost-effective electricity service. The Ontario Smart Grid Forum, launched by the Independent Electricity System Operator (IESO) in collaboration with representatives from local distribution companies, brings together leaders from across the sector.
Locations: Ontario.
Website: http://www.ieso.ca/imoweb/marketsandprograms/smart_grid.asp
(The) Utility Standards Board - is a group of utilities working on AMI and MDM interface standards to exchange information and discuss plans for proposing a “de facto” system interface standards in an accelerated time frame. Specifications defined by this group will be folded into work being done at UtilityAMI working groups.
Website: http://www.defgllc.com/content/defg/usb.asp
Xcel Energy - announces intended site of Smart Grid City: Boulder, Colo. to become first fully integrated "smart" city in the nation. Webpage.
Monitoring - See Monitoring Page.
Organizations
Consortium for Electric Reliability Technology Solutions - (CERTS) was formed in 1999 to research, develop, and disseminate new methods, tools, and technologies to protect and enhance the reliability of the U.S. electric power system and efficiency of competitive electricity markets. Real-Time Grid Reliability Management—developing and prototyping software tools that will ultimately enable the electricity grid to function as a smart, automatic, switchable network. Website.
DOE Office of Electricity Delivery and Energy Reliability - The Department of Energy Office that oversees much of the U.S. government's grid-related R&D
Department of Energy - Smart Grid Page.
http://www.oe.energy.gov/smartgrid_02.htm
Global Smart Energy - Research consultancy and publisher of Smart Grid Newsletter. A group of leading researchers and energy experts and global specialists in smart energy technologies. We deliver the insights clients need when facing complex decisions in this fast-changing industry. Website. *
Papers
GRID 2030 - A National Vision for Electricity’s Second 100 Years
National Transmission Grid Study - Recommendations to modernize the nation’s electric transmission system
MADRI Advanced Metering Toolbox - Resources on advanced metering and other grid issues, compiled by the Mid-Atlantic Distributed Resources Initiative
National Electric Delivery Technology Roadmap - Transforming the Grid to Revolutionize Electric Power in North America
Open Applications Protocols - a Utilipoint discussion of the Smart Grid and communications networking possibilities.
A Systems View of the Modern Grid - An overview of the guiding principles behind the Modern Grid Initiative.
The Emerging Smart Grid - An overview of commercial and investment possibilities from this new sector
San Diego Smart Grid Study: Final Report - PDF - 194 Pages. October 2006.
Smart Grid Business Case - A business case must take into account the cost-effectiveness, operational improvements and return on investment for initiatives. It should also consider community-wide benefits. The paper also covers the business advantages of AMI, distribution and outage management, simulation and optimization, and enterprise business intelligence. PDF
Smart Grid Networking and Communications - EnerNex draft for NIST, text version v0 3_4_. This paper addresses four fundamental questions related to standards and technology for building a Smart Grid for California: What new and emerging technologies are on the horizon that impact the Smart Grid of the future; How to avoid incompatible systems being fielded that result in costly replacements ahead of projections; How to help foster open access, competition and commercial growth of new and exciting technologies that offer energy consumers new ways to meet their energy needs while at the same time saving them money; and; Where government can help and where government should stay out.
Text: http://www.EnergyCollection.com/Energy-Smart-Grid/Smart-Grid-Standards-Landscape-Whitepaper.pdf
Presentation: http://www.EnergyCollection.com/Energy-Smart-Grid/Smart-Grid-Standards-Landscape-Presentation.pdf
Smart Grid Newsletter Case Studies - Studies of real-life smart grid pilots and installations
Smart Grid View - from BPL Global.
The Intelligent Power Grid - By Jeffrey Taft of IBM.
Resources
CEIDS and The Power Delivery System of the Future - Clark W. Gellings. Electric Power Research Institute. March 2003.
A description of the CEIDS vision of the future of the grid. Includes key characteristics of future grid visualization technologies. PDF.
Calvin Electricity Initiative - is leading a campaign to create a perfect power system. A perfect power system cannot fail the consumer. It is environmentally sound and fuel-efficient. It is robust and resilient; able to withstand natural and weather-related disasters and mitigate the potential damage caused by terrorist attack. The perfect power system provides affordable electricity to all consumers and allows consumers to control their own energy use to the extent they choose. Website.
GridLAB-D - Pacific Northwest National Laboratory. GridLAB-D will be putting out a request for partnerships in a few weeks for those who are interested in joining in the development. PDF.
GreenTechMedia - Funding in SmartGrid - http://www.greentechmedia.com/categories/category-grid.html
Idaho National Laboratory (INL) - Energy - Research Page. Locations: Idaho Falls (near), Idaho. Involved in Smart Grid research.
IntelliGrid Consortium - a worldwide alliance of utilities, high-tech manufacturers, and regulators working together to create the power system of the future. Website.
Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) - Energy - Research Page. Involved in Smart Grid research.
Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) - Energy - Research Page. Involved in Smart Grid research.
(The) National Energy Technology Laboratory (NETL) - Energy - Research Page. Involved in Smart Grid research.
Oak Ridge National Laboratory - UT-Battelle manages Oak Ridge National Laboratory for the Department of Energy. Involved in Smart Grid research.
The Path to Perfect Power: New Technologies Advance Consumer Control - Galvin Electricity Initiative. January 2007.
An overview of a "bottoms-up" approach to transforming the electric power industry, including explanations of the need for consumers to have full information. PDF.
Reliability Compliance Monitoring - Consortium for Electric Reliability Technology Solutions (CERTS). October 2006.
CERTS uses wide area power visualizations to monitor electric reliability and compliance. PDF.
Smart Grid Newsletter - Smart Grid Newsletter (SGN) is the insider's guide to this rapidly growing market. It also serves as a communication vehicle for its Founding Sponsor, the GridWise Allliance, a public/private consortium dedicated to modernization of the electric system.
Visualizing the Electric Grid - Thomas J. Overbye and James D. Weber. IEEE Spectrum Online. February 2001 - A key article showing major themes in future visualization work, implemented in the PowerWorld application. PDF.
Visualization of Power Systems and Components - Thomas J. Overbye. Power Systems Engineering Research Center. University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. PDF.
VERDE Fact Sheet - Oak Ridge National Laboratory. Wide area, real-time situational awareness visualization tool under development. PDF.
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