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Results From the World’s Biggest Transactive Energy Test

Results From the World’s Biggest Transactive Energy Test About two years ago, the Pacific Northwest Smart Grid Demonstration Project flipped the switch on the country’s biggest test of a technology concept that could transform distributed energy-grid integration: transactive energy. The goal was to show that near-real-time energy and pricing data could provide the right signals … Continue reading Results From the World’s Biggest Transactive Energy Test →

Bonneville Power Uses Analytics to Manage Demand

Bonneville Power Uses Analytics to Manage Demand Among the challenges faced by electric utilities, especially during the summer cooling season, is managing peak demand while figuring out how to integrate intermittent power sources into the grid. Increasingly, big data analytics tools are being applied to the emerging smart grid as a way to gauge demand … Continue reading Bonneville Power Uses Analytics to Manage Demand →