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| Houston Chronicle 8-13-2018 'Utilities collected higher rates to finance the building of statewide smart meter network that would allow customers to track electricity use in real time. Utility companies in Texas, with regulator approval, have backed out of their promise to provide real-time electric monitoring. The original intent was to provide customers with in-home devices that would eventually track electric pricing minute by minute and allow them to automatically turn down or shut off air-conditioners pool pumps and energy sucking appliances when prices spike on hot summer afternoon’s and turn them on when prices fell.' As a bit of background information, Texas electricity has been privatized. The public owned the grid at one time, but it was sold off to friends of the legislature without giving the public their share of the ownership. Instead the public got the hassle of selecting a 'provider' each year. If customers do not sign up for a new contract, and just keep last years contract, the prices spike. To help select a provider, the public got a sorely mismanaged state-run website that is overrun with impossible-to-understand plans to choose from: less than 1000 Kwh, more than 1000 Kwh, weekend rates etc etc, but absolutely nothing transparent about the price per Kwh hour that you will pay. The smart grid faces other problems: Customers would rebel against a grid that forced them to install expensive, and possibly unreliable controls for their air conditioner, motors etc. Override air conditioner with timer The promised devices might re-invent into wifi, but customers dislike variable rates that are dependent on overall grid capacity, especially when the prices are driven by the largest consumers, and every new mall, gas station and 10,000 square foot home can be blamed for higher prices. Additionally, the issue of privacy and wifi would be a negative among many people. More troubling however, the privately-owned utilities, that are not very popular in Texas, would lack incentive to economize operations while being rewarded for choking off supply to raise profits. | |
| Resources CEA-2045-Preview.pdf CEA-2045-SC25_WG1_N1653.pdf CEA-245-4502.pdf |
Smart grid Module is NOT sold to public 2016 CEA: consumer electronics association standards for public interest to 'facilitate interchangeability of products.' CEA-2045 is a technical report, released in 2012, that compares interface standards. Open source CEA devices were typically intended to interface with electrical devices such as water heaters, thermostats, pumps and controllers. The standard was promoted for development of consumer products that would interface with smart grid. Those products never materialized since consumer demand was impeded by imaginary privacy concerns, the fear of big brother electric having control over your appliances, and the diminished packet potential of smart grid devices. Instead the market preferred open-source z-wave, followed by market for proprietary wifi software to encompass larger goals via cell phone technology. The adaptation of wifi to the same application intended for smart grid put control in hands of public vs big brother electric, but at the total submission of personal privacy. In 2012: "The potential applications of this technology are wide-ranging, it is intended at a minimum to provide a means by which residential products may be able to work with any load management system through user installable plug-in communication modules." UCMs – universal communication module CEA-2045 details the mechanical, electrical, and logical characteristics of a socket interface that allows communication devices (hereafter referred-to as UCMs – universal communication modules) to be separated from end devices(hereafter referred-to as SGDs – Smart Grid Devices)" |
| I wrote: CEA-2045 is a standard agreement between manufacturers for development of smart grid devices that were going to interact with your smart meter. Hundreds of 'new products' were going to be available to meet customer demand to monitor power consumption and read their smart grid consumption. The market never materialized, and no mass-produced products are available that I am aware.. Even Whirlpool announced that all their appliances would be smart-grid capable by 2016-19... (amid rampant fears about privacy invasion by the big power companies)... They introduced the Energy Smart water heater that was smart grid ready.... all you had to do was get the CEA-2045 compliant smart module from power company or other source ...which is not available according to 2015 web searches. Resource Whirlpool-Energy-Smart-electric water heater |
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Chuck Thomas Electric Power Research Institute – EPRI -
Knoxville, replied, and said: CEA-2045 standard is a communication port standard ... .. and is designed to support the connection between any network to any end-use device. The standard does not preclude the use of any network such as Zigbee, z-wave, to physical layers like Wi-Fi, Cellular, power line carrier and other networks not yet invented. These modules that plug into CEA-2045 end-use devices could be supplied by any company, not just utilities. I'm thinking, this is a future technology or industry technology and not consumer technology? yet? EPRI is rolling out appliances to utilities. The challenge for smart grid is the cost, at same time global rainfall, ice melt, coal and independent rooftop solar become contentious political issues. Resources CEA-2045 resources at EPIR |
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