Smart Grid

The Illinois Senate last week voted to put the state's electric grid modernization efforts back on track and ensure that the benefits of improved reliability, job creation, and infrastructure upgrades can be realized by the state and Illinois consumers.

To those people who have been in the industry for 12 years, it may seem that little has changed. However, for me, it seems more has changed than you may realize.

Recently a Los Alamos National Laboratory quantum cryptography (QC) team successfully completed the first-ever demonstration of securing control data for electric grids using quantum cryptography.

The Association for Demand Response & Smart Grid has announced the addition of five new members. The new members are Duke Energy, EnerNOC, Steffes Corporation, Corporate Systems Engineering, and Silver Spring Networks.