Join us for an informal discussion about a scientific topic. Anyone is welcome, although seating may be limited. We will meet in the Gateway Movie Theatre in the South Campus Gateway.

 

The Next Cafe:

Date:	Novermber 4, 2009, 6:30pm
Speaker:	Robert E. Burns, Center for Energy, Sustainability, and the Environment
Title:	Implications of a Smart Grid
Summary:	The smart grid is an enabling set of technologies that can change how the electric grid operates, how our electric utility interacts with us, and how we choose to interact with our utility.  What is the smart grid?  How might the smart grid be implemented?  Depending on how the smart grid is implemented, what are its implications? What will the smart grid cost? Will it increase or lower my rates?  My bill?  Will it affect the reliability and value of electricity?  How would it affect renewables?  Plug-in vehicles? What are smart appliances?  How green is the smart grid?  Will there be interoperability?  Cyber-security? Privacy?  This talk provides insights on the implications of a smart grid.
More about our speaker:	Mr. Burns has thirty years plus experience in public utility & natural resource law and public policy analysis, twenty-seven and one-half of those years, as a Research Specialist and attorney at the National Regulatory Research Institute (NRRI), then located at the Ohio State University. Over the years, he has worked on electric reliability, pricing, generation expansion, distributed generation and interconnection issues, including implications of advances that are now smart gird technologies.

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