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Boulder’s smart grid claims: will it actually be first?
Boulder seems hell-bent on being the first smart-grid city in America, and the Camera recently reported that Rep. Polis secured $500,000 for vehicle-to-grid tech in Boulder — another very interesting step toward the goal — that must now be approved by the Senate and the president.
But the largest city in the country may be taking notice. More after the jump.
The New York Daily News reports that utility company Con Edison has proposed smart grid-like technologies for New York City. The News’ headline: “Con Ed proposes new technology to monitor flow, avoid blackouts – for $385M.” The tone of NYC smart grid talk isn’t quite the same as it is here in Boulder. The story says that other utilities in the state have also put forth similar plans.
Of course, you don’t see NYU’s president living in a smart-grid house.
For more on vehicle-to-grid (V2G) technology, check out this ClimateWire explainer:
The idea is to allow electric vehicles not only to draw power from the grid, but to send electricity back into it, as well. It effectively would use the cars’ batteries as a big storage system to help buffer the constantly fluctuating balance of electricity in the system — ups and downs that are expected to become steeper and more unpredictable as the share of renewable energy rises.
