Smart Grid Today's Smart Grid PIONEERS 2012 exclusive industry report
“We have many systems currently in place that are being upgraded to handle the next-generation capabilities,”
“Strategic planning for our organization is more of a bottom-up than top-down,” Vermont Electric Cooperative CEO Dave Hallquist told us. “That team identified cybersecurity as one of our key focus areas and for me that meant I had to learn what cybersecurity was. I think you can focus on cybersecurity and safety alone and all of your business will improve.”
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“If there’s a Northeastern seaboard storm outage that takes out [30 of 100 energy storage systems] and one of those happens to have been the master, the rest of the network -- the 70 systems that are there – can continue functioning and it can elect another master system,” Greensmith CEO John Jung was quoted in the report. “We’
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“In the 400-plus assessments I’ve done over the past couple of years, in every case we arrive at the facility and they tell us that they’re 100% firewalled and that there’s no direct connection between the operations network and the enterprise network,” Next Generation Micro CEO Sean McGurk told us. “And in no cases has that ever been true.”
Smart Grid PIONEERS 2012 includes a breadth and depth of information that only knowledgeable energy reporters, determined to find the story behind the story, can provide. It features actionable, detailed and thoughtful reporting written by and for people who understand that there are great challenges in regulatory processes, shareholder relations, interoperability of devices and systems, cybersecurity, the processing and acting upon huge volumes of data collected from the field, customer relations, internal friction between departments within utility companies and more.
“Every few months, they wanted more money from us,” Layne Maxfield, electrical engineer for Idaho Falls Power told us about working with bankrupt battery maker Ener1. “They kept jacking the price up. It was a bait-and-switch every time we turned around. I was not impressed by how they did business.”
But if done well, the deployment of computerized and networked technologies -- including smart meters, sensors, monitors and other distribution technology plus related gear such as demand controls, energy storage and renewables -- can deliver the same kind of revolutionary benefits that have been experienced by many other industries over the last half-century and beyond. Find out how over 75 industry experts are working to make it a reality today in Smart Grid PIONEERS 2012.
“I do think from a technology perspective we’re going to learn a lot about our grid and being able to operate it much more closely to tolerance than ever before,” National Grid VP Cheri Warren told us. “And that’s going to pay dividends for customers across Massachusetts. By knowing exactly what we’re experiencing on the system, we can change the way we design that system in the future.”
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