The electricity grid has performed brilliantly for more than a century in powering our homes, offices, schools etc., but it is ill equipped on several fronts to meet the future needs of our citizens.   Put it this way, if Alexander Graham Bell were confronted with today’s telephony – cell phones, texting, etc. – he would most likely be amazed. However, Thomas Edison, would probably feel quite at home in the largely non-digital, electromechanical landscape that is today’s grid.    Businesses, governments and universities around the world are actively involved in designing and developing Smart Grids that will spur the kind of transformation that the Internet brought to the way we live,...continued

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Michael Andrews IEEE Region 6 Delegate-Elect and Jean Eason, past Region 5 Director have recently introduced an exciting new proposal to help increase understanding of the Smart Grid while training and educating the engineers of tomorrow.  The IEEE volunteer-led initiative, partially sponsored by IEEE’s Power & Energy Society (PES), is called the “SMART Competition”.  SMART stands for Sustainable Materials And Renewable Technology, which forms the basis for the student project.

Competition’s Design

The SMART Competition is directed at high school students and will focus on Smart Grid concepts including: sustainable building design, smart grid monitor...continued

PISCATAWAY, N.J., USA,16 March 2011 – IEEE, the world's largest professional association advancing technology for humanity, today announced an innovative online game – Smart Grid 2025 – designed to explore what is needed to create the best possible future for Smart Grid. Co-sponsored by IEEE Spectrum and the Institute for the Future, Smart Grid 2025 is a massively multiplayer forecasting experiment launching on 17 March, 2011 at 12:00pm EDT (4:00pm UTC), and participants can register now at: http://game.smartgrid2025.org/.
 
Upon registration, Smart Grid 2025 participants will create a player then join hundreds of IEEE members and non-members from industry, academia and government online to help expl...continued