Smart meters and other gear needed to make grids more intelligent will not come cheap.
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This is driving strong demand for smart grids, green building materials and the like.
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It is claimed that Scotland already has world-class research in smart grids and related technologies.
Everybody gets wonderful new mass transit upgrades, alternative energy infrastructure, smart grids, and bridges to nowhere.
Now that they do, roads, bridges and electricity grids would be a better bet.
Storm-proofing subways, hospitals, electrical grids and other key infrastructure will cost tens of billions of dollars.
These advanced grids also can integrate renewable energy sources such as rooftop solar panels.
The city is broken into grids now, and contractors are being assigned blocks to clean.
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Solar grids were constructed on the three atolls, with the last completed earlier this week.
Floating wind farms are set to be connected to mainland grids via cables across the seabed.
Other connected devices like smart grids, smart cars, e-readers and alarms present incremental opportunities.
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Almost all of the electricity moved over grids is in the form of alternating current.
The breakdowns in the northern, eastern and north-eastern grids affected 20 of India's 28 states.
Grids of multi-coloured letters and numbers illuminate the background, itself computer-enhanced to resemble a pitch-black sky.
But it also lets users set up their own grids that fit their individual needs.
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The potential gains from getting right the transition from national to regional grids is huge.
When countries then created national grids, they reaped big gains by cutting duplicate spare capacity.
To sum up the conference, micro-grids were viewed differently by various entities at the table.
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And if Sandy proves to be truly damaging, the impetus for micro-grids will be even stronger.
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More reliability would have come from water-proof substations, building-centric Bloom fuel-cell power and local micro-grids.
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The standout looks were the see-through dresses that looked like cages or grids worn over strapless numbers.
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There had been additional benefits to the mini-grids giving people ownership of their power, Dr Karmacharya pointed out.
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How it functions over that diversity will likely influence how businesses build out their grids in the future.
Nowhere more so than with smart grids, which are regarded as a major contributor to a low-carbon economy.
Smart grids can happen at the building level and scale up to global, just as the Internet did.
And in any case, the kinds of battery chemistry one uses for cars and the grids are different.
Users can set up different grids to control for example custom settings for Windows, Skype, Mediaplayer or games.
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Like microgeneration, the idea of such "smart grids" has been circulating in the energy community for some time.
But in reality, most power grids are based on 1950s technology, with sketchy communications and antiquated control systems.
Smart grids help match energy demand to changeable supply, from wind for example.
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