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What Smart Grids will Australia get?

Posted by tony in Carbon Measurement and Tracking | Electricity Distribution | Electricity Supply - (0 Comments)
What Smart Grids will Australia get?

After a $100 million smart grid trial in July this year, the Australian Government released the Australia smart grid guideline on the 30th September. “With this investment, Australia will showcase the world’s best practice when it comes to investing in smart grid technologies, helping industry get on with the job of rolling out these technologies … Read more →

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Appliances for the smart grid

Posted by Bruce Rowse in Carbon Measurement and Tracking | Electricity Distribution - (0 Comments)

General Electric is developing “smart” appliances that can integrate with “smart meters” and thus potentially schedule loads in a way that reduces maximum demand. With time of use pricing in place, the GE system will use pricing information to schedule loads real time. So for example if a washing machine was running it might switch … Read more →

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How plummeting PV prices will greatly change the electricity distribution network

Posted by Bruce Rowse in Cogeneration | Electricity Distribution | Solar - (1 Comments)

I attended a workshop today in Melbourne run by iGrid, a consortium of universities and the CSIRO preparing a model of the intelligent energy grid of the future. Its been identified that peak demand, which is rising faster than electricity consumption, is one of the most critical issues that a distributed generation network can address. … Read more →

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