Smart Grid

We have an infrastructure crisis.  In 2002 The Hartford Steam Boiler Inspection and Insurance Company published a report titled Life Cycle Management of Utility Transformer Assets, which outlined the state of our infrastructure.  The last major build-out of our grid was around 1973-74 and we have not seen much activity since. With a 30+ year old grid we need to leverage more out of existing equipment.

In a speech delivered at the IEEE Power Engineering Society’s Summer 2002 meeting, Clark Gellings from EPRI reported “the load growth in the US has been about 35% over the last 10 years. But our transmission capacity has only grown 18% over that period. To compound the problem, wholesale interstate and intrastate transactions have grown 400% during that time.”

Infrastructure Industry Analysis:

Life Cycle Management of Utility Transformer Assets by William H. Bartley P.E.
Hartford Steam Boiler Inspection & Insurance Co.
presented at Breakthrough Asset Management for the Restructured Power Industry
Salt Lake City, Utah, October 10–11, 2002

MIT-IPC-Energy Innovation Working Paper 09-003  [also MIT-IPC-09-002]
Electricity Transmission Policy for America: Enabling a Smart Grid, End-to-End
Mason Willrich
July 2009
http://web.mit.edu/ipc/research/energy/pdf/EIP_09-003.pdf

McKinsey & Company
The case for investing in energy productivity - February 2008
http://www.mckinsey.com/mgi/publications/Investing_Energy_Productivity/

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