Cloud Computing: Smart Grids 101 – Connectivity of the Future
May 23, 2015
Grazed from TechnologyTell. Author: Kayla Matthews.
The Obama administration has included $3.5 billion in grid modernization in its budget for the 2016 fiscal year. On top of that, the smart grid IT market is expected to double by 2024 and the future for implementation of smart grid technology is all but certain, with cities like Austin, Chicago and Sacramento leading the way. Here’s a bit more about smart grids and how they could improve life as we know it:
Smart Technologies – A Brief History
The formal move toward an intelligent grid started in 2002, when the Electric Power Research Institute proposed a research project called IntelliGrid. Eighteen months later, IntelliGrid Architecture was born and the first smart grid architecture was available for power distribution. The focus of the new architecture was on the following four areas:…
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