Government Technology - September 2007 - (Page DC32) Emerging Technologies Smart Grids for Energy Smarter grids and meters help revive an aging U.S. utility system. BY CHANDLER HARRIS | CONTRIBUTING WRITER N AUGUST 2003, the largest energy sector that are part of a trend blackout in North American his- in electricity conservation fueled by tory left 50 million people without increasing power demand, an overburpower in eight states and Canada. The dened and antiquated electrical grid blackout cost an estimated $6 billion and a desire to curb energy use because and revealed a flawed and aging power of global warming. Congress called for reform of the infrastructure developed shortly after U.S. power infrastructure, including World War II. As a result of the Northeast blackout increased spending for a national smart — and subsequent smaller blackouts power grid. Both Congress and U.S. powand brownouts in California and Texas er companies are conducting research — power companies nationwide have to update power grids to “smart grids.” been researching wide area energy “Smart meters” allow interactive conmeasurement technologies. “Smart” is nectivity with smart grids and are now the term used to defi ne a host of new used throughout the U.S., Canada and technology-empowered tools in the some Western European countries. I Better Tools Southern California Edison (SCE) said it developed a new grid measurement technology that will help prevent future cascading blackouts and would’ve helped control the Northeast blackout. Last May, Edison International testified before a U.S. House of Representatives Energy and Commerce Subcommittee about its Synchronous Phasor Measurement, which gauges stress on utility transmission grids and provides an early warning system to help prevent blackouts. “We’ve had a lot of smart people who have wanted to apply better tools for at 32 DIGITAL COMMUNITIES SEPTEMBER 07
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