America’s electricity grid
2223 Grant Line Road
is built upon what many consider
2 miles south of I-265
to be an antiquated principle: Make
New Albany, Indiana
large amounts of electricity and
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have it always available to end
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users whether they need it or not.
It’s much like the way most home
Area’s f_inest selection
water heaters work in keeping
of quality indoor &
water constantly hot even when it
outdoor plants
is not being used. It is also a strictly
• Creative landscape
one-way relationship with utilities
design & installation
supplying power to end users, but
services
not also vice-versa.
• Unique garden
gift shop
The smart grid concept is
• Soils, mulches, pots,
predicated on a two-way flow of
tools and more
Open all
energy—and information—between
year for
electricity generators and end users.
all your
Over 5 acres of
gardening
horticultural ecstasy!
The system not only delivers power
needs
to end users as needed, depending
on demand; it also gathers power
from end users that produce their
own—homes and businesses that
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generate solar, wind or geothermal
power themselves—when they have
ngell
more than they need.
Some 2 states and Washington,
DC already require utilities to have
S A L O N S P A systems in place to buy excess
energy generated by their customers.
Where the atmosphere is heavenly!
But, writes journalist Michael
Prager in E – The Environmental
Massage
Magazine, “because they can’t know
Hair & Nails
Pedicures
Facials
in real time that power is coming
in, utilities generate as much as
Pedicures
they would have anyway.” He adds
that when information flows both
ways, end users will be able to
send information back to the grid
specifying how much power they
need and when they will need it.
They’ll also be able to communicate
Gift Certificates
when they have excess power
Open Monday - Saturday
available to upload to the grid.
102 Hometown Plaza Sellersburg, Indiana 47172
On the forefront of research into
8
March/April 2009
the feasibility of the smart grid on a
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