Smart grid

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Sources of information on Smart Grid Projects

Looking for information on the utility's smart grid projects, both those in deployment, and those being planned (or out for bid), but it seems to take a lot of Googling.

Here are two resources I have found recently, please add others you know about:

Smart Grid Information Clearinghouse, sponsored by DOE. Has a number of goverment-funded pilots, not so much on real deployments.

www.sgiclearinghouse.org

Smartgrid.gov, another U.S. government-sponsored website, has a project listing, but it may just be a summary from the clearinghouse.

Here's a link to smart micrgrids on the Galvin Electricity Initiative website.

http://www.galvinpower.org/microgrid-projects

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