Announcing the Kill-a-Watt Chronicles – an exploration of power consumption in the home.
Archive for the ‘smartgrid’ Category
21 May
BU Smart Grid Panel Questions and Answers
Notes from the Boston University Symposium on Disrupting the Status Quo in Energy Management on May 21, 2009: Moderator, Rob Day, Renewable Energy Business Network Hamid Elahi, GE Energy – Energy Applications and Systems Engineering Larry Gelbien – Engineering NSTAR Electric and Gas Philip Giudice – Mass Department of Energy Resources Robert Kaufmann – Center [...]
21 May
BU Electric Energy Management Panel Discussion Prepared Remarks
Notes from the Boston University Symposium on Disrupting the Status Quo in Energy Management on May 21, 2009: Moderator, Rob Day, Renewable Energy Business Network Hamid Elahi, GE Energy – Energy Applications and Systems Engineering Larry Gelbien – Engineering NSTAR Electric and Gas Philip Giudice – Mass Department of Energy Resources Robert Kaufmann – Center [...]
21 May
Innovative Business Models to Drive Market Adoption
Notes from the Boston University Symposium on Disrupting the Status Quo in Energy Management on May 21, 2009: Nalin Kulatilaka, Professor of Finance and Economics Boston University Believes the lack of accurate pricing information on the cost of electricity at the time of consumption is driving slow adoption of efficiency technology. Drivers of slow adoption [...]
21 May
Energy Related Lessons Learned from Sensor Networks
Notes from the Boston University Symposium on Disrupting the Status Quo in Energy Management on May 21, 2009: Christos Cassandras, Professor Systems Engineering, Boston University Technology side of the smart grid. First lesson – if you live in wireless world, then saving electricity is a necessity. Sensor networks provide an infrastructure to build intelligent energy [...]
21 May
Energy Service Companies Challenge the Centralized Generation Legacy
Notes from the Boston University Symposium on Disrupting the Status Quo in Energy Management on May 21, 2009: Demand Response versus peaking plant: Peaking plant: – 100MW – 8-10% transmission loss vs DR – none – Annual carbon emissions – 6,500 tons vs DR – none – Siting – limited vs DR – where consumption [...]
21 May
Demand Response in the PJM Synchronized Reserve Market: Experience and Prospects
Notes from the Boston University Symposium on Disrupting the Status Quo in Energy Management on May 21, 2009: Andrew Ott, VP Markets, PJM (Pennsylvania, New Jersey, Maryland) Average time to bring a gap under control in 1980′s was 30 minutes, now it’s 6-8 minutes. Services Regulation – automated response for fine tuning.. Synchronized PJM – [...]
21 May
Smart Pricing and Smart Grids
Notes from the Boston University Symposium on Disrupting the Status Quo in Energy Management on May 21, 2009: William Hogan, Professor, Global Energy Policy, Harvard University Involved in opening up natural gas pipeline early in career Just did a talk on electricity transmission pricing Electricity system is not a fast natural gas system. See Electricity [...]
21 May
Systems Challenges and Opportunities for Sustainable Energy Solutions
Notes from the Boston University Symposium on Disrupting the Status Quo in Energy Management on May 21, 2009: Michael Caramanis, Professor Division of Systems Engineering, BU Need to take a systems approach Best strategy to conserve fossil fuels is to stop using them. Heat pumps are 3-4 times more efficient than fossil fuel systems. Electrification [...]
28 Apr
Clean Tech: Fueling Innovation and Growth in Massachusetts
Notes from a panel discussion at the Boston Chamber of Commerce on the future of renewable energy and job growth in Massachusetts
