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Smart Electric Grid Technologies Are Adopted, Business and Industry Trends Analysis

The Grid: In the U.S., the networks of local electric lines that businesses and consumers depend on every day are connected with and interdependent upon a national system of major lines, power plants and controllers collectively called “the grid.”  The grid is divided into three major regions, named East, West and Texas.  These regions are also known as “interconnects.”  In total, the grid is a compendium of about 7,000 power plants sending electricity across 450,000 miles of transmission lines and 2.5 million feeder lines, all managed by 3,300 utilities.  
The grid’s three interconnects are broken down into about 120 control areas, but operators of those control areas have very little authority beyond making requests (but not demands) of utilities participating within their areas.  Unfortunately, much of this grid was designed and constructed with technology developed in the 1950s and 1960s, and it was never intended to carry the amazing amount of power that today’s electricity-hungry Americans consume.  Simply put, much of the grid is out of date.


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