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Any Electrical Engineers or Power Grid Technicians?

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If they are a public utility that information should be public information.

I had to call MECO last year to ask about solar and wind power and how much of the total electric usage was covered by those sources... they forwarded me to the right guy and he answered all my questions.

Call your local utility company and ask. Can't hurt.
 
Cool, I'll have to try that. I just sent our local company an email. I suppose I can try sending other companies emails too, can't hurt. Anybody care to give me the email addy of their power company? 🙂 Thanks
 
I will post a reply in the afternoon though a lot of them won't be much better then JohnCU's, though I do work in Distribution(Power Delivery), you asked a very broad set of questions, which most people aren't privileged to the information nor do they want to be.
 
Thanks for your help so far guys. Have any of you read this book? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/S...nce_of_a_Connected_Age I think I am going to base my paper of small-world networks and power grids, but I am thinking that may be too technical and specific. I really liked that book though and recommend to anyone who is into that kinda book. It was pretty easy reading too (not slogging through a bunch of equations at all). I can probably expand my paper to also include computer networks, since they are similar to power grids, so if anyone wants to try the survey using computer networks instead go for it please! 🙂

PS What can I say about John's credentials, is he an electrical engineer?
 
Originally posted by: Jjoshua2
Thanks for your help so far guys. Have any of you read this book? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/S...nce_of_a_Connected_Age I think I am going to base my paper of small-world networks and power grids, but I am thinking that may be too technical and specific. I really liked that book though and recommend to anyone who is into that kinda book. It was pretty easy reading too (not slogging through a bunch of equations at all). I can probably expand my paper to also include computer networks, since they are similar to power grids, so if anyone wants to try the survey using computer networks instead go for it please! 🙂

PS What can I say about John's credentials, is he an electrical engineer?
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i have a BS in electrical engineering

and i havent read that book.
 
So I read the wiki article on smart grids, it seems quite relevant. The article said they are supposed to be self-healing and resist attack. How is this accomplished? An easy way would be to have duplicate everything, and switch over on failure, but that much redundancy would be quite wasteful most of the time.
 
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