The Smart Grid
Jordan Pepper
MIS 304
March 23, 2009
Video
http://www.youtube.com/w
atch?v=ezFD8NanGMQ
What is the “Smart Grid”?
Blanket Term
Incorporates
Curbing Demand
Eliminates/Contains blackouts
Decrease CO2 emissions
Linking Grids
Grid Energy Storage
What is the “Smart Grid”?
1.Be able to heal itself
2.Motivate consumers to actively
participate in operations of the grid
3.Resist attack
4.Provide higher quality power that will
save money wasted from outages
5.Accommodate all generation and
storage options
6.Enable electricity markets to flourish
7.Run more efficiently
What’s going on right now?
11 billion dollars from stimulus
package
Projecting savings
Pioneers
Boulder, CO
Boulder, CO
Parameters
Real Time information
Provider controls appliances
“Tivo-ing” Electricity
Criticisms and Fears
Moving to fast
Technology can be cumbersome
Cyber Security
Who’s regulating security
standards