the grid
What’s Peak Demand?
Martin LaMonica spotted a great stat from an FCC hearing at MIT. The great state of Massachusetts uses 15% of its power generating capacity for just 88 hours per year, or about one percent of the time.
Those power plants tend to be the dirtiest and the most expensive. At times of peak demand, utilities [...]
A Vision for the Energy Web in 2001
Wired 9.07: The Energy Web
"In recent years, a series of technological breakthroughs – and, more important, a critical mass of scientific ideas – has begun to coalesce around a new model for an energy system that would better serve the needs of the near future, while enabling power producers as well as consumers to lessen [...]
An Introduction to the Largest Interconnected Machine on Earth
The Department of Energy released a new, by-way-of-introduction report on The Grid, which as you can read below, can “appropriately” be called “an ecosystem.”
Our century-old power grid is the largest interconnected machine on Earth, so massively complex and inextricably linked to human involvement and endeavor that it has alternately (and appropriately) been called an ecosystem. [...]
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