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BIM and Laser Scanning for As-Built and Adaptive Reuse Projects - The_American_Surveyor_072009.pdf (application/pdf Object)
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Risky Business and Dynamic Transactive Energy Pricing – Removing barriers to Free Energy - The New Daedalus - New Daedalus
"Utilities today must play not to lose rather than to win. They cannot adapt new technologies quickly because they must always be reliable. Market actors that cannot accept risk, cannot afford to innovate. End nodes can voluntarily accept risk, and so can afford to adopt new technology. If Denver, where we met this month to form the Smart Grid Interoperability Panel (SGIP), is plunged into darkness for a week, it is a dire outcome; if my home fails for a week, is provides entertainment to my neighbors. The difference between grid-level innovation and end-node innovation is the difference between tragedy and comedy.
Smart grids will transfer risk to their end nodes. Economic agents which assume risk will expect to be paid for it. These payments will be the fertilizer for an untold number of new technologies. The best way to transfer risk and payments together is self-balancing, self organizing free markets in energy. Systems that can participate in these markets for us as well as systems that can store or generate energy on-site, will be the reward."
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Distributed Energy Grids can use Diverse Energy Storage - The New Daedalus - New Daedalus
"District energy grids distribute thermal energy, whether in the form of heat (steam) or of cooling (chilled water). These systems can pre-cool (or pre-heat, although this is less common) water for distribution. Thermal storage lets district energy microgrids shift energy use to off-peak hours. In a modern transactive grid, such shifting can be part of demand response. Microgrids with significant thermal storage may be able to run entirely on site-based alternative energy during peak hours. They may be able to store off-peak generation converted to thermal energy."
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