SMART GRID - EDUCATIONAL ARTICLES
What exactly is a smart grid? Imagine utilities that are connected via predictive, sensitive, and data-gathering technologies. Information is power and can even improve efficiency, but upgrading our grid can lead to new vulnerabilities if we are not careful. Read on to learn more.
Smart Grid Programs & Projects
What do advanced metering, cybersecurity, electromagnetic compatibility, precision timing, and interoperability all have in common? They're necessary components of secure smart grids. The National Institute of Standards and Technology details them in this page.
Smart Grids: IEA Tracking Report
The International Energy Agency has rated Smart Grids as having "more efforts needed." Read on to see how this organization could benefit from strategic investment before we reach a critical point of our aging grid.
Smart Cities: Digital Solutions for a More Livable Future
What makes a city "smart"? It's no longer just improving efficiency behind the scenes. Woetzel et al of the McKinsey Global Institute explores how a smart grid would be integrated in people's lives, both on a maco- and micro-level.
Smart Grids: Electricity Networks and the Grid in Evolution
I-Scoop explains how a reimagined grid that allows the two-way flow of electricity and data needs smart metering to become a reality.
SmartGrid.gov: the Smart Grid
The U.S. Department of Energy breaks down the different components of a smart grid. Read this article and explore the breakout tabs in the right-hand side for a better understanding of how comprehensive this networks must be.
The Dark Side of the Smart Grid
Anything that's painted as 'too good to be true' or a 'revolutionary technology that solves our electric problems' deserves greater scrutiny. IIOT explains how the smart grid would increase energy vulnerabilities, not fix them.