What’s the Buzz on Smart Grids? The smart grid is a new infrastructure proposal to substitute the current outdated and inefficient electric infrastructure that supplies electricity to companies and consumers in the U.S. The new grid is expected to offer great advantages nationwide. The smart grid offers new ways to handle power by using alternative energy sources whish enable us to go green. Smart grid uses digital technology to deliver electricity saving energy, reducing cost, and increasing reliability and transparency.
The new infrastructure allows information to flow back and forward from energy plants to consumer’s households and companies enabling them to make more rational decision of consumption and production. In addition this offer consumer the possibility to regulate their electronic appliances such as heating and air conditioner system for a responsible consumption while meeting the maximum need of usage lowering cost and pollution. All this advantages are not just advantages but also a clear difference that sets the economy to propel at lees in this single sector. Furthermore the smart grid is capable of detecting power outages more precisely and quickly at the individual household levels. Smart grids are expected to reduce the energy consumption from a 5 to 15 percent nationwide if implemented across the nation. Not only will this new infrastructure enable consumers to visualize through a home display devise the consumption and cost of the energy used to minimize cost and unnecessary usage of energy but also will create up to 370,000 new jobs nationwide.
In order for this implementations to take place there must me some managing decisions to be made and approve the investment to set the necessary technology and new equipment across the nations for this smart grip to be able to operate successfully. These implementations are network and switchers for power management; sensors and monitoring devises. New systems to provide energy suppliers and consumers with up today usage data, also a communication system to relay data along the entire energy supply system.
In addition to the managerial decisions that could delay or prevent the smart grid form happening, another factor that could also hamper the development is economic reasons. The lack of funds to invest in all the technology needed to implement across the nation even with an approval it’s an obvious reason. As far as the case appoints the cost for this smart grid can reach up to 75 billion.
Our community can benefit for the implementation of smart technology as well. All the funds that will be save form the economization of energy can be channeled toward other areas in our community that needs it such as after school activity for children in their teen to prevent then to find other unhealthy activities or drugs that harm the nucleolus of our community in a great manner. Other are its safety, school, pollution, etc will haply use an extra funds to improve their systems.
I definitely approve the implementation of smart grid technology and I will like for my community to benefit from this because of all the advantages that it brings with it. Out standards of life, job opportunities and our social and cultural horizons can develop onto a different and better quality of life for single individuals onto families in general (Laudon, C., & Laudon, P., 2012, p. 36).