Tag: The Grid

Nonintrusive Load Monitoring

Nonintrusive Load Monitoring

Nonintrusive Load Monitoring

11/26/17

“How can we determine the appliances in a building just from its energy consumption?”

 

As Engineers, it would be very useful to analyze the types of appliances within a building. However, doing so requires a heavy upfront investment in a large multitude of sensors.

 

Or does it?

 

After many years of research, Engineers and Scientists have developed a method known as Nonintrusive Load Monitoring, which takes in data from a building’s energy uses, parses out all of the patterns, and recognizes which appliances are in the unit. Although novel and affordable, one serious drawback with this technology is privacy concerns, since large organizations will be able to snoop in on the appliances that an individual possesses.

How Renewable Energy is Helping Grid Stability

How Renewable Energy is Helping Grid Stability

How Renewable Energy is Helping Grid Stability

10/16/17

“How can renewable energy increase grid stability?”

 

Numerous critics of renewable energy believe that by increasing its usage will make the grid more unstable due to the fluctuating nature of the sun and wind. However, a leaked six-page document from the U.S Department of Energy has found that such claims are unfounded and that the increased use of energy efficiency, battery storage, and demand response was actually making the grid more reliable! Just goes to show that with a little bit of science even the most intuitive of perspectives can be proven untrue.