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Engineers and entrepreneurs are rushing to explore alternative sources of efficient and renewable energy in New Jersey and elsewhere in the country. A Rutgers School of Business—Camden professor has strong words of caution as projects involving wind farms and photovoltaic cells proliferate.

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The power grid today is wasteful, costly, inefficient and dumb - and ill-equipped to address many pressing energy issues, from the need to focus on climate change and carbon cost, to the demand for high reliability. However, the advent of distributed generation, distributed storage, and distributed intelligence will change power infrastructure into an intelligent and more nimble power web.

"Smart grid technologies, like advanced metering infrastructure and demand response services, will enable the transformation of the current grid to a more reliable and intelligent power web," said Ying Wu, Senior Analyst at Lux Research.

Looks like he has been reading GreenMonk.net!!!

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Tom Raftery no es un nombre demasiado conocido, aunque no para de dar conferencias por diversas partes del mundo, desde Berlín hasta Nueva York.

Su última parada ha sido Sevilla para debatir en el EBE (Evento Blog España) de un concepto relativamente nuevo, el GRID 2.0 (red de segunda generación), una idea nada fácil de definir, pero que podría traducirse como la redistribución de la energía eléctrica gracias a la tecnología, de un modo similar al que utiliza Internet para distribuir el conocimiento. Una especie de Electranet.

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