Smart energy aims to integrate renewable energy, energy storage, electric vehicles and smart grid technologies to efficiently distribute the right energy sources at the right times. Key aspects include modernizing the transmission and distribution grid with bidirectional communication; integrating distributed energy resources like rooftop solar; developing smart metering, demand response and microgrids; and coordinating electric vehicle charging. Fully realizing the smart energy paradigm will require building out generation, distribution, storage and management infrastructure over the next 10-20 years through the combined efforts of utilities, technology companies and standards organizations.

1. Getting Smart About Smart Energy Robert D. Cormia Foothill College

6. Smart Energy Paradigm Distribution Generation Storage Demand The ‘Right Energy at the Right Time’ – ‘Right Sourcing’ Generation, Distribution, and End Use of Energy

10. Grid Definitions The electric grid delivers electricity from points of generation to consumers, and the electricity delivery network functions via two primary systems : the transmission system and the distribution system . The transmission system delivers electricity from power plants to distribution substations , while the distribution system delivers electricity from distribution substations to consumers. The grid also encompasses myriads of local area networks that use distributed energy resources to serve local loads and/or to meet specific application requirements for remote power, village or district power, premium power, and critical loads protection. http://www.oe.energy.gov/smartgrid.htm

11. Traditional Power Grid

13. GHG Emissions by Source http://eia.doe.gov/

14. Electrical Grid Networks An electric grid is a network of synchronized power providers and consumers that are connected by transmission and distribution lines and operated by one or more control centers. When most people talk about the power "grid," they're referring to the transmission system for electricity. The continental United States does not have a national grid. Instead, there are three grids: the Eastern Interconnect, the Western Interconnect and the Texas Interconnect. In Alaska and Hawaii, several smaller systems interconnect parts of each state. http://whatis.techtarget.com/definition/electric-grid.html

21. A plug-in hybrid or full electric EV looks like an entire house to the utility. The majority of electric vehicles will need to draw power at about the same time of day. Need to coordinate EV charging through two-way Internet communications, including transfer of ‘stored power’ EVs use half to a quarter of the BTUs per mile compared to ICE (gasoline), and GHG emissions can be significantly lower if RE is used.

22. Wind Power – Real Power

24. Vanadium redox flow cells Store excess power for later use!

27. Monitoring Everything

29. AMI/EMS/BMS/HAN

30. Smart Energy Begins at Home!

32. Network Architecture

33. Energy NOC - Data Centers http://www.enernoc.com/index.php

35. IntelliGrid™ - Smart Grid http://intelligrid.epri.com/

36. ZigBee Specification ZigBee is a specification for a suite of high level communication protocols using small, low-power digital radios based on the IEEE 802.15.4-2003 standard for wireless personal area networks (WPANs), such as wireless headphones connecting with cell phones via short-range radio. The technology defined by the ZigBee specification is intended to be simpler and less expensive than other WPANs , such as Bluetooth . ZigBee is targeted at radio-frequency (RF) applications that require a low data rate, long battery life, and secure networking. The ZigBee Alliance is a group of companies that maintain and publish the ZigBee standard.

37. Smart Grid / Micro Grid Distributed generation (localized) in micro grids and part of a larger smart grid

38. Smart Home Micro Grid Cornell Microgrid - Instead of relying solely on large power plants, a portion of the nation's electricity needs could be met by small generators such as ordinary reciprocating engines, microturbines, fuel cells, and photovoltaic systems. A small network of these generators, each of which typically produce no more than 500 kilowatts, would provide reliable power to anything from a postal sorting facility to a neighborhood.

39. Electronomics Cover design for the new book by Jesse Berst, Electronomics: How the Electricity Economy Will Create Wealth & Prosperity

40. Demand Response Process http://www.cpowered.com/services.php

42. Smart Energy Ecosystem

48. Vision the Electron Economy