Intelligent buildings filled with clever devices and intelligent systems will negotiate with the grid and with their occupants to provide new models for reliable power. The benefits to the grid will come from coordinating supply and demand using economic signals. The benefits to the buildings will be increased value by providing higher levels of amenities to their tenants and inhabitants for lower cost. The benefits to the tenants and occupants will be better services at the same or lower costs and more autonomy as they separate from grid dependency. The benefit to the clever devices will be longer life and more reliable operations as we eliminate the power shocks that assail them now.

The benefits to building owners will be economic models that offer incentives to pay for improved equipment. The benefit to building integrators will be national markets based on common signals from the grid, allowing them to provide more services to those owners for less. The benefit to ventures and technology development will be the entry of all those building owners into the markets for generation and storage; those owners will offer a shorter sales cycle and more openness to innovation than ever will the utilities.

This requires a small simple model for interactions. To create this model, we must think clearly about the business process of each of these participants. Today, we have the virtual company in every niche of our economy. UPS and FedEx offer logistics services that are part of the internal processes of thousands of companies. Tomorrow we will have virtual energy services companies as well, assembled from the services offered by a community more numerous and diverse than today.

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TED Support
written by Dan Pancamo, October 14, 2009

Dan Pancamo
October 13th, 2009 at 5:21 pm · Reply
After not getting any support from the company, I decided to start my own support group…

For those interested…. Join here

http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/TheEnergyDetective/

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