Entries Tagged as 'smart grid'
March 26th, 2009 · Comments Off on Subways and the Smart Grid
As promised yesterday, Microkhan’s gonna continue with its week-long series of “extras” taken from the cutting-room floor of my Wired smart-grid essay. Today’s treat? How subways can become part of distributed-generation networks, along with rooftop solar panels and backyard wind turbines. Beginning in the early 1970s, the Metropolitan Transit Authority began experimenting with flywheels that […]
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Tags:energy·New York City·smart grid·transportation
March 24th, 2009 · 1 Comment
After a wait that seemed ever-so-slightly like forever, Wired‘s cover package on smartening up the electric grid is finally here. I wrote the lead essay, which is mostly a primer on how the grid got so FUBAR in the first place. The bite-size answer? Myopia, botched deregulation, and political bickering. It was difficult to even […]
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Tags:Electric Company·electricity·smart grid·software·Wired
