Better home appliances are a great idea, but the true potential of the Smart Grid is much more about distributed generation, high-penetration renewables, and pluggable hybrid vehicles. (Image via Wikipedia)
What a surprise – it turns out that Getting the Smart Grid Right is going to be about much more than smart meters and demand response. It’s going to take some regulatory muscle and a determination to include renewables.
The elephant in the transmission room is regulatory and siting hurdles, according to Transmission logjams could kill centralized renewables by Jesse Berst, published in Smart Grid News.
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