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By: GridWatch

GridWatch — Wed, 07 Apr 2010 16:52:46 +0000

Thanks, Josie, for the details on one perspective on connecting consumers, utilities and EVs. The use of EVs in particular may actually help to resolve a problem being reported by the utilites regarding their difficulty in managing variations in the grid because of the intermittant input from some of the renewable energy providers. The EVs as both a storage device and a peak load resource might help to moderate the variations the utilities are struggling with.

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By: Elliott Lemenager

Elliott Lemenager — Thu, 01 Apr 2010 18:10:49 +0000

Just a heads up if you have additional questions we’re going to have a live chat with Troy next week, so start sending over your questions now so we can make it as engaging as possible – send you’re ?s over to us at http://www.facebook.com/microsofthohm or http://www.twitter.com/micorsofthohm

Thanks!

By: Eideard

Eideard — Thu, 01 Apr 2010 13:01:50 +0000

"the U.S. has 3,000 utilities, and no set standard for them to communicate across the grid" - a pretty good indicator of just how technologically-backwards so much of our nation has become.

Just as there once was a time when we set the pace for advancing education [OK, it's been a century] we once set the pace for telecommunications, logistics and traffic management. That was a half-century ago.

The appropriate definition of "corrupt" should include reactionary ideology designed to prevent any positive change.