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Smart appliances are providing residential power consumers with insight into their energy use, facilitating energy-efficient and eco-friendly behavior. As such appliances become widespread, we may see residential consumers reduce demand on a large scale without being unduly inconvenienced.
With much more comprehensive data and faster, denser communications, it is possible now to keep a much closer watch on volts and Vars (Volt-amperes reactive). The implications for grid stability and quality of service are more far-reaching than you might suppose.
Whether in the form of direct load control or real-time pricing, demand-side management should be an essential ingredient of the smart grid. To induce residential consumers to participate, energy companies may need to offer billing discounts and be sensitive to how electricity consumption preferences vary with time of day.
The monitoring, optimization and control systems for smart grids will require computerized intelligent systems to handle the increased variability and uncertainties caused by increased penetration of intermittent renewable energy resources. What principles will govern the design of such systems and where do we find them?
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