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What is the SmartGridCity Colorado Project?

How is the SmartGridCity shaping the future of transportation?
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argmatrixman9000 | 2 years, 7 months ago
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What is the SmartGridCity Colorado Project?
SmartGridCity Colorado Project is "a new joint venture between the US Department of Energy’s National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) and the University of Colorado at Boulder." (information obatain from http://www.greenbang.com/toyota-joins-effort-to-create-worlds-first-fully-smart-grid-city_12266.html)
This is a project that is being carried out by the company XCEL ENERGY in Colorado at Boulder "aiming to create the first fully functioning smart grid-enabled city in the world."

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A smart grid delivers electricity from suppliers to consumers using digital technology to control appliances at consumer's homes to save energy, reduce cost and increase reliability and transparency. Such a modernized electricity network is being promoted by many governments as a way of addressing energy independence, global warming and emergency resilience issues.
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information quoted from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smart_grid

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Smart grid functions
1. Be able to heal itself
2. Motivate consumers to actively participate in operations of the grid
3. Resist attack
4. Provide higher quality power that will save money wasted from outages
5. Accommodate all generation and storage options
6. Enable electricity markets to flourish
7. Run more efficiently
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information quoted from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smart_grid

Here is additional links explaining the project in more detail
http://tdworld.com/smart_grid_automation/xcel-smart-grid-city-0909/
http://www.nytimes.com/cwire/2009/10/21/21climatewire-a-city-of-experts-ponders-a-new-energy-savin-78056.html

How is the SmartGridCity shaping the future of transportation?

"The project will gather data on vehicle performance and charging patterns, consumer behaviour and preferences, as well as electric utility/customer interactions"
1.It will give the companies that make the car feed back on their vehicles
2.It will provide residents with information and feedback on the cars they wish to purchase
3.Car makers will gain valuable knowledge on how to improve hybrid vehicles
4.It will reduce the amount of energy being use and provide more electrical energy for the hybrid cars.

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