Smart Grid, Utilities, and Internet Protocols

Google Tech Talk
April 14, 2010

ABSTRACT

Presented by Erich W. Gunther.

The smart grid is a big topic these days, but before there was a smart grid newspaper headline, the utilities have been experimenting with TCP/IP in the backend networks for a while now. Erich Gunther of enernex (www.enernex.com) will present a reference model and concept of network operations for the power industry including how Internet Protocols fit in that space. Along the way he will touch on what has worked, what hasn't and some of the security issues along the way.

Erich W. Gunther is the co-founder, chairman and chief technology officer for EnerNex Corporation - an electric power research, engineering, and consulting firm - located in Knoxville Tennessee. With 30 years of experience in the electric power industry, Erich is no stranger to smart grid - he has been involved in defining what smart grid is before the term itself was coined.

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Science & Technology

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• smart
• grid
• electrical
• power

[john5246]

Skip to 54:20 to see video of some really cool explosions and electric arcs from power lines going bad. Tesla would be proud.

[teckforce37]

Interesting!

[Tamizushi]

@captcaveman4201 I'm also pissed off by all the problems caused by a capitalist system but I don't know that we have any better alternative.

[Tamizushi]

@captcaveman4201 Just like the same can be said of computers, the price of solar panels HAS come down steadily for the past 40 years. The main driver has been innovation. I agree that no subsidies should be given to any fossil fuel market and I would even agree with a reasonable carbon tax (somewhere between 20 an 50$/Tonne) but even then solar would still not cast a shadow on oil an current price. Their price will have to go down by about 75% before that, not that it's impossible.

[captcaveman4201]

@Tamizushi also i didnt say fuck everything manmade. I am just saying that some ideas that were made inside of someones head.. Are not nessasaraly the only ways of doing things..Even though they would have you beleive that they are. Things like stock markets, or credit cards, or gas pumps ect ect ect...

[captcaveman4201]

@Tamizushi companies are charging you because they are selling you something.. ya no kidding.. They are selling you a bunch of bullshit and lies everyday. You say solar panels are very expensive. YEA WHY IS THAT? You know shitty computers used to be real expensive too. like realy shitty and really expensive. why didnt the solar panels get cheaper? OO they manipulated the energy markets did they? Gave Billions of $s in subsitys to Oil companies to keep them on top?? Use your brain and think.

[Tamizushi]

@captcaveman4201 Companies are charging me because they are selling me something. Solar electricity in not free because solar panels are very expensive. Hydrogen is not an energy source. At best it's a very inefficient energy storage.

As for fucking economy and everything manmade well, good luck with that.

[captcaveman4201]

@Tamizushi fuck economical and economics.. they are obsolete !! and and manmade umm bullshit. In the end all of those numbers wont add up my friend.. Thats when the finger pointing starts. You know the story !! And when i say smart home i am talking just about a house that doesnt need any grid. can make its own electricity hot water lights ect ect. solar hydrogen electricity free = WIN WIN WIN !! Do you know why energy companies that charge $ for energy dont want this?? hmmm do ya??? any clues?

[Tamizushi]

@captcaveman4201 And by smart home I assume you mean well isolated with only efficient appliances, some sort of electrical generation, (either solar, wind or some form of fossil fuel) and powerful batteries. Sure it is feasible but it's also generally a lot more expensive overall to produce electricity this way. Don't get me wrong, I do thing that solar has the potential to become economical when used this way, but only after the price goes down (which it has the potential to).

[captcaveman4201]

@Tamizushi the only reason the smart homes are connected to the grid IF THEY ARE. is to sell extra electricity..

[captcaveman4201]

@Tamizushi its already been done.

[Tamizushi]

@captcaveman4201 Good luck with that.