From Smart Appliances to the Smart Grid

Wringing out efficiencies in the grid is big business, with AHAM (The Association of Home Appliance Manufacturers) suggesting a $900M annual savings by shifting just 5% of power consumption from peak to off-peak times. One way to realize this sort of improved efficiency is by controlling the load through communication with so-called smart appliances. In this exclusive video interview, recorded at CES 2011, Kevin Messner, Vice President of Government Relations for AHAM, discusses the technical, regulatory and financial challenges of deploying smart appliances in the smart grid.

Click here for an article, published in Screenplaysmag.com, which complements this video interview. Click on the image , courtesy of AHAM, to get a view of how the disparate pieces fit together to make the Smart Grid.

This video coverage made possible by Parks Associates.

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[…] But the question then becomes, what will steer the market to that common technology foundation so as to facilitate off-the-shelf, national consumer participation? The Association of Home Appliance Manufacturers, whose members represent over 95 percent of home appliances sold in the U.S., recently took a step in this direction with creation of the Smart Grid Task Force to identify which of some 60 home networking and applications protocols are best suited for integration with home appliances (To view a ViodiTV video interview with AHAM’s Kevin Messner, click here). […]

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