These cities are pushing for more renewable energies and local generation of that energy.
Smart Cities are integrating both small scale and large scale initiative. They are pushing for improvements in the national infrastructure at the same time pushing for city wide local generation solutions.
This is happening in cites around the world and is driving sweeping and fundamental changes to our energy environment.
“In addition to being the focus of extensive smart grid pilots, cities are becoming increasingly proactive in terms of the targets they are setting for their utilities to shift from fossil fuel to renewable energy, and are encouraging local generation on both the residential and commercial level.”
Support for renewable generation by city authorities places increased pressure on utilities to deliver an infrastructure that can integrate these new resources in a manageable way, according to the white paper. Grid reinforcement is often required to support the integration of large amounts of renewable energy, but this can be offset by the wider use of smart technologies – smart grids – for both network management and demand management initiatives, such as automated demand response.
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