User talk:CorporateM/smart grid

COI Contributions
I have a financial COI with Honeywell in that they’ve recruited me to help them navigate through Wikipedia and COI Best Practices. I have a few edit requests and would like to request help from impartial volunteer editors.User:King4057 (COI Disclosure on User Page) 03:11, 17 April 2012 (UTC)

OpenADR
I was hoping to add OpenADR to the standards section
 * OpenADR is an open-source smart grid communications standard used for demand response applications.

And inform readers of OpenADR implementations Honeywell was involved in and in which public funds were used

China
The smart grid market in China is estimated to be $22.3 billion with a projected growth to $61.4 billion by 2015. Honeywell is developing a demand response pilot and feasibility study for China with the State Grid Corp. of China using the OpenADR demand response standard. The State Grid Corp., the Chinese Academy of Science, and General Electric will work together to develop standards for China’s smart grid rollout.

United Kingdom
The OpenADR standard was demonstrated in Bracknell, England, where peak use in commercial buildings was reduced by 45 percent. As a result of the pilot, the Scottish and Southern Energy (SSE) said it would connect up to 30 commercial and industrial buildings in Thames Valley, west of London, to a demand response program.

United States
In 2009, the US Department of Energy awarded an $11 million grant to Southern California Edison and Honeywell for a demand response program that automatically turns down energy use during peak hours for participating industrial customers. The Department of Energy awarded an $11.4 million grant to Honeywell to implement the program using the OpenADR standard.

Hawaiian Electric Co. (HECO) is implementing a two-year pilot project to test the ability of an ADR program to respond to the intermittence of wind power. Hawaii has a goal to obtain 70 percent of its power from renewable sources by 2030. HECO will give customers incentives for reducing power consumption within 10 minutes of a notice.

Definition
I thought it would benefit the article to create a clear "definition" section. I took a first crack at it. A lot of it is based on the energy.gov source. Thoughts?

Definition
The “grid” refers to the networks that carry electricity from the plants where it is generated to consumers via wires, substations, transformers, switches and more. “Smart” refers to the computerization of the electrical grid enabled by computerized two-way communications between devices, users, equipment and providers. Two-way communications are used for demand response, improved operations and to support consumers selling energy back to the electrical grid.

A smart grid is an umbrella term that covers modernization of both the transmission and distribution grids, as well as deeper automation and control inside the home or building. The modernization is directed at a disparate set of goals including facilitating greater competition between providers, enabling greater use of variable energy sources, establishing the automation and monitoring capabilities needed for bulk transmission at cross-continent distances, and enabling the use of market forces to drive energy conservation.

Many smart grid features readily apparent to consumers, such as smart meters, serve the energy efficiency goal. The approach is to make it possible for energy suppliers to charge variable electric rates so that charges would reflect the large differences in cost of generating electricity during peak or off-peak periods. Such capabilities allow load control switches to control large energy consuming devices such as water heaters so that they consume electricity when it is cheaper to produce.

Justification
There is already an obstacles section. Can we start a justifications section?

Justification
The driving forces to modernize current power grids can be divided into four, general categories.
 * Increasing reliability, efficiency and safety of the power grid.
 * Enabling decentralized power generation so homes can be both an energy client and supplier (provide consumers with an interactive tool to manage energy usage, known as net metering).
 * Flexibility of power consumption at the client side to allow supplier selection (enables distributed generation of solar, wind and biomass).
 * Increase GDP by creating more new, green-collar energy jobs related to renewable energy industry manufacturing, plug-in electric vehicles, solar panel and wind turbine generation and energy conservation construction.

A large 2007 survey in the U.S., Germany, Netherlands, England, Japan and Australia found that:
 * 83% of those who cannot yet choose their utility provider would welcome that option
 * Roughly two-thirds of the customers that do not yet have renewable power options would like the choice
 * Almost two-thirds are interested in operating their own generation, provided they can sell power back to the utility