{"id":151056,"date":"2019-06-18T08:29:31","date_gmt":"2019-06-18T12:29:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/?post_type=school-college-post&p=151056"},"modified":"2019-06-18T08:29:31","modified_gmt":"2019-06-18T12:29:31","slug":"smart-minds-talk-smart-grid","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/2019\/06\/smart-minds-talk-smart-grid\/","title":{"rendered":"Smart Minds Talk about the Smart Grid"},"content":{"rendered":"

When you turn on a light or power up your laptop, you might not think about the engineering marvel \u2013 the electric grid \u2013 that makes it possible. You almost certainly don\u2019t think about the age of the existing grid and the need to move towards more modern systems.<\/p>\n

For participants of the Eversource Energy Center Grid Modernization Summit, ways to make the delivery of electricity more reliable were at the front of everyone\u2019s minds.<\/p>\n

According to the Department of Energy, the U.S. electric grid has more than 9,200 electricity generating units, with over 1 million megawatts of capacity connected to over 600,000 miles of transmission lines.<\/p>\n

The goal of the Grid Modernization Summit was to discuss how our new electricity needs \u2013 from electric vehicle charging stations to storm readiness in the face of climate change \u2013 tax this existing infrastructure and to begin to consider solutions.<\/p>\n

\u201cWith more and more systems relying on the grid, our aging electric infrastructure is required to perform beyond its original design and capacity,\u201d says Emmanouil (Manos) Anagnostou, director of the Eversource Energy Center and professor of engineering at UConn. \u201cWith this conference, we are bringing together leaders from across the energy chain to decipher how profound transformations in our society will reshape power markets.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Anne George, VP for External Affairs and Corporate Communications from ISO New England at the Eversource Energy Center's Grid Modernization Summit on June 6, 2019. (Christopher Larosa\/UConn Photo).<\/div>
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Anne George, VP for External Affairs and Corporate Communications from ISO New England at the Eversource Energy Center's Grid Modernization Summit on June 6, 2019. (Christpher Larosa\/UConn Photo).<\/div><\/div>\"Raymond<\/a>
Raymond Petniunas, Managing Principal at Utility Resource Consulting Inc., at the Eversource Energy Center's Grid Modernization Summit on June 6, 2019. (Christopher Larosa\/UConn Photo).<\/div>
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Raymond Petniunas, Managing Principal at Utility Resource Consulting Inc., at the Eversource Energy Center's Grid Modernization Summit on June 6, 2019. (Christopher Larosa\/UConn Photo).<\/div><\/div>\"Attendees<\/a>
Attendees at the 2019 Eversource Energy Center's Grid Modernization Summit on June 6, 2019. (Christopher Larosa\/UConn Photo).<\/div>
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Attendees at the 2019 Eversource Energy Center's Grid Modernization Summit on June 6, 2019. (Christopher Larosa\/UConn Photo).<\/div><\/div>\"Scott<\/a>
Scott Sine, Division Manager of Engineering and Energy Services at Ht Lyons, at the Eversource Energy Center's Grid Modernization Summit on June 6, 2019. (Christopher Larosa\/UConn Photo).<\/div>
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Scott Sine, Division Manager of Engineering and Energy Services at Ht Lyons, at the Eversource Energy Center's Grid Modernization Summit on June 6, 2019. (Christopher Larosa\/UConn Photo).<\/div><\/div>\"Attendees<\/a>
Attendees at the 2019 Eversource Energy Center's Grid Modernization Summit on June 6, 2019. (Christopher Larosa\/UConn Photo).<\/div>
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Attendees at the 2019 Eversource Energy Center's Grid Modernization Summit on June 6, 2019. (Christopher Larosa\/UConn Photo).<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>
\nThe second annual event was held last week at UConn and brought together state regulators, ISO operators, power utilities, technology leaders, and academic researchers for a multifaceted discussion on the biggest challenges facing grid modernization efforts. Panelists from Eversource, Edison Electric Institute, ISO New England, Avangrid, and other entities presented solutions for grid modernization by considering the complex interdependencies of technology, economics, regulation, and social demand.<\/p>\n

For more information on the Eversource Energy Center at UConn Tech Park, visit eversource.uconn.edu<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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The Grid Modernization Summit held recently at UConn’s Eversource Energy Center brought together industry leaders, regulators, and researchers to discuss how our new electricity needs \u2013 from electric vehicle charging stations to storm readiness in the face of climate change \u2013 tax our existing infrastructure and to begin to consider solutions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":127,"featured_media":151058,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_crdt_document":"","wds_primary_category":0,"wds_primary_series":0,"wds_primary_attribution":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1866,2076],"tags":[],"magazine-issues":[],"coauthors":[2140],"class_list":["post-151056","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-engr","category-research"],"pp_statuses_selecting_workflow":false,"pp_workflow_action":"current","pp_status_selection":"publish","acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-04-11 07:31:08","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/posts\/151056","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/users\/127"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=151056"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/posts\/151056\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/media\/151058"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=151056"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=151056"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=151056"},{"taxonomy":"magazine-issue","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/magazine-issues?post=151056"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=151056"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}