Ind. utilities get $39M for energy grid upgrades

Indiana is getting about $39 million in federal grants to help modernize the state's utility operations and local electrical grids.

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National Power Grid Report to Be Released

The watchdog that oversees North America's power grid says the full promise of renewable fuels cannot be harnessed without first building more power lines that can carry this cleaner energy to consumers.

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Energy Secretary Steven Chu explains how we could revolutionize energy use by turning our dumb grid into a smart grid.

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The Sacramento Municipal Utility District on Tuesday scored $127.5 million in federal stimulus funds to install "smart meters" in every home and business in its territory – the first step in giving local consumers real-time, online information about their energy use.

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Google Inc is in the early stages of looking at ways to write software that would fully integrate plug-in hybrid vehicles to the power grid, minimize strain on the grid and help utilities manage vehicle charging load.

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excerpt: ""Street demonstrations erupted in Iran once again on July 21 as thousands of people gathered in small pockets around central Tehran on the anniversary of an uprising in 1952 in which government security forces refused to fire on the crowds.

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This week, the Sacramento Municipal Utility District is set to take its first step toward what promises to be the most significant development in electricity in a century: the "smart" grid.

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New electricity meters being rolled out to millions of homes and businesses are riddled with security bugs that could bring down the power grid, according to a security researcher who plans to demonstrate several attacks at a security conference next month.

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Seeing a source of jobs and environmental benefits, politicians are embracing the need for an updated power grid. The stimulus bill signed in February includes $11 billion for improvements. But that's just a drop in the bucket.

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Researchers at the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory in Richland say they've come up with a way to recharge electric cars that won't strain the power grid.

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WASHINGTON (CNN) -- Is it really so smart to forge ahead with the high technology, digitally based electricity distribution and transmission system known as the "Smart Grid"? Tests have shown that a hacker can break into the system, and cybersecurity experts said a massive blacko …

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Electric cars are cheaper to run - according to this cost-per-mile study the equivalent of 75cents per gallon. The article also reports, without ANY expansion, the current electric grid could power 75% of the small vehicles on the road today.

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Thirty Six (36) people died as a result of the ice storm in the state of Kentucky.

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Excerpt from article:Kentucky was the hardest-hit. Monday's icy wallop encrusted a large part of the state in a mantle so thick it shattered utility poles, toppled trees and drove thousands from frigid homes to shelters.

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Tidal power doesn't get the attention — or the venture capital — that higher-profile renewable energy sources such as solar or biofuels do, but there's a lot of energy waiting to be tapped in the motion of the ocean.

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Where will all of the electricity for all the electric cars come from??? And a couple of other related questions.....

Thursday, December 11, 2008

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Broadband through the power grid?

I've read a little about this in one of the PC/Mac magazines I take, but I take four so don't know which one now. Just wondering if this will really work and if any of you readers are working on this project.

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Al Gore's Alliance for Climate Protection has some environmental advice for the incoming Obama administration: focus on energy efficiency and renewable resources, and create a unified U.S. power grid.

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Al Gore has made a major speech in Washington this morning, setting out an ambitious goal for the USA to produce all of its electricity from carbon-free sources by 2020.

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The computing giant is preparing a technical "framework" to accelerate new technology integration into the creaky electricity distribution grid, said Drew Clark, director of strategy for IBM's Venture Capital Group, which is charged with aligning start-ups with IBM and its custom …

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At one point, it is reported, over 4 million were without electricity in South FL, including many municipal traffic signal devices....chaos ensued....

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The blackouts that attract attention are the ones that hit entire cities. But most of the time, only a handful of homes and businesses are left in the dark because of a failure of a distribution circuit.

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Big batteries will fight blackouts and could make renewable power economically viable.

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Researchers who launched an experimental cyber attack caused a generator to self-destruct, alarming the federal government and electrical industry about what might happen if such an attack were carried out on a larger scale

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But now, a growing number of Americans are shunning power lines, choosing to live "off the grid," without commercial power — and still enjoying their computers and large-screen televisions.

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Federal agents on Wednesday arrested a contract employee they say tampered with computers at the headquarters of the agency that controls California's electricity transmission.

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It is not just temperature records that are being smashed by the nationwide heat wave; significant bits of America's electricity power-supply system are breaking too.

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