So what's so smart about the smart grid?

Electricity Journal

Volumn 24, Issue 10, 2011, Pages 91-99

  Sioshansi, Fereidoon P ^a  

^a NERA ECONOMIC CONSULTING   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ELECTRIC POWER SECTOR; INFORMATION REVOLUTION; SMART GRID;

SMART POWER GRIDS;

EID: 84855967702     PISSN: 10406190     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.tej.2011.11.005     Document Type: Article

References (5)

1. Excerpted from the author's newsletter, EEnergy Informer, Feb. 2011.
2. Making the Consumer an Active Participant in the Grid, N.Y. TIMES, Nov. 29, 2010.
3. A similar re-definition of service has occurred in the mobile telephone business, where service is no longer measured in prices and number of minutes talking on the phone, but the bandwidth and the speed of download and data transfer, which is increasingly demanded by sophisticated mobile devices.
4. Refer to chapter in Smart Grid book by the same title.
5. Honeywell, for example, already has a massive presence in the U.S. with thermostats installed in 150 million homes and 10 million buildings.