IF we are ever going to clean up our electricity grid we need to replace coal and natural gas with zero carbon sources.
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The number of readings taken each year by a basic electricity meter equals 12. On the other hand, the number of readings taken each year by a typical smart meter equals 35,000.
AutoGrid, an American energy management company using algorithms, sorts through petabytes of data from smart meters – adjusting for variables such as weather – and spits out solutions that let utilities and their customers automatically shift nonessential electricity to non-peak times.
The beauty of this system: the “Enernet” helps utilities make better use of wind and solar power, compensating when the wind isn’t blowing and the sun isn’t shining. AutoGrid estimates that the company’s algorithms can help utilities get about 30 per cent more power out of existing resources.
A smarter and more efficient grid through the same intelligence that brought us the internet can reduce the need for coal seam gas for instance and turn governments towards the reality that sun and wind power are free sources of energy.
J. Macleod, Berry.
