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U.S. Energy Ecosystem: Entering a New Era?

In: Broadband Networks, Smart Grids and Climate Change

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  • Lawrence D. Plumb

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The idea that the physical infrastructure used to generate, transmit, and distribute electricity to the sockets and outlets in the walls of homes and business throughout the U.S. needs a digital transformation and two-way communications in order to improve its efficiency, and reliability has been near the top of the country’s energy policy agenda for several years. Grid modernization is needed to address a range of issues, from how to forestall another blackout similar to what occurred in the Northeastern U.S. in 2003 to how to accommodate the increasing amounts of wind and solar power that are coming onto the grid. The vision of deploying a “smart grid” is the driving idea behind Title XIII of the Energy Independence and Security Act of 2007, for instance.

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  • Lawrence D. Plumb, 2013. "U.S. Energy Ecosystem: Entering a New Era?," Springer Books, in: Eli M. Noam & Lorenzo Maria Pupillo & Johann J. Kranz (ed.), Broadband Networks, Smart Grids and Climate Change, edition 127, chapter 0, pages 121-134, Springer.
    • Handle: RePEc:spr:sprchp:978-1-4614-5266-9_11
    DOI: 10.1007/978-1-4614-5266-9_11
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