INTERNET TO CONTROL ENERGY GRID BY NWO

LAURIE ROTH & GUEST ON WORLD INTERNET CONTROLS THE ENERGY GRID SYSTEM
--FRI APR 15,11 HOUR 1-2-3
http://therothshow.com/show-archives/april-2011/
JONES ON THE GOVERNMENT INTERNET TAKEOVER ALSO
http://rss.nfowars.net/20110417_Sun_Alex.mp3

SO THEIR GOING TO CONTROL YOU AND THE ENERGY GRID BY THE INTERNET SO YOU HAVE NO SAY TO ANYTHING,JUST PAY THEM THE HIGH TAXES ON EVERYTHING AND THE NEW WORLD ORDER CONTROL FREAKS CAN DO TO YOU WHAT EVER THEY WANT.ITS AN INTERNET TAXING,TRACKING ALL AND EVERYTHING SYSTEM.

Smart Grid Related articles,05/12/2010 Smart Grid 2.0
Building the Internet of Energy Supply By Alexander Jung-DER SPIEGEL

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In Brauweiler, on the outskirts of Cologne, two engineers are making sure that 27 million German citizens are able to make coffee or start up their computers at any time -- without any power cuts whatsoever. From where they are sitting in the control room of Amprion, a subsidiary of energy utility RWE, the two engineers manage a power grid that is 11,000 kilometers (6,875 miles) long.

It is shortly after 1 p.m., time for a shift change in the control room. The new team sits down in front of the world view, their name for the giant screen that opens up in front of them. At a width of 16 meters (52 feet) and a height of 4 meters, the screen depicts an oversized grid of red and blue dotted lines, which represent power lines between the Ruhr region in western Germany and the Alps in the south. Based on the data on the screen, the engineers can determine that the power plants, which they can activate with a click of the mouse, generate precisely the amount of electricity customers need at any given moment.This is something of a sacred formula for electric utilities. Only when consumption and generation are perfectly balanced does the grid remain stable.More recently, the engineers have had to add a new variable to their equations. And this new variable throws their entire calculation into disarray. Everything can be planned, except the wind, says Amprion Managing Director Klaus Kleinekorte.The wind fluctuates between gentle breezes and powerful storms, but at some point Kleinekorte and his team will have to come to terms with its incalculable power. Every week, new wind turbines are built in Germany and more solar panels appear on roofs.

Fragile Balance Thrown Out of Kilter

The grid operators are required by law to give priority to these clean forms of energy when feeding electricity into the grid. The only problem is that the sun and the wind are very unpredictable. The fluctuations complicate their work. The job has become much more stressful, says Kleinekort.The grids are reaching maximum load more and more often.And this is only the beginning. In the coming years, the German government plans a massive expansion in renewable energy and expects it to make up 30 percent of total power production by 2020. Giant wind power projects are in the works for the North Sea and the Baltic Sea. At the same time, the Mediterranean countries intend to utilize the massive potential of solar energy with the Desertec project in the deserts of North Africa.Wind power from the north and solar energy from the south: If this fantastic vision becomes reality, the fragile balance could be thrown completely out of kilter. The grid is prepared for anything, just not the requirements posed by renewable energy sources, says Klaus Töpfer, the former head of the United Nations Environment Program and today a representative of Desertec.But what is missing is the modern power grid that will transport green electricity to consumers in the center of Europe, a grid that, moreover, is capable of integrating fluctuating loads into the existing system. Without such a capable system, fears the German Energy Agency, the situation could turn disastrous. According to a study,an elevated number of critical grid situations could arise in the coming years, which will also lead to bottlenecks within the German transmission network.Millions of households experienced exactly what can happen during such a bottleneck shortly after 10 p.m. on Nov. 4, 2006. Technicians with network operator E.on had shut down an important transmission line during the transport of a cruise ship, and had incorrectly assessed the consequences. The rest of the grid became overloaded, causing one line after the next to shut down automatically. Some electricity customers were in the dark for up to one-and-a-half hours.

Urgent Need to Modernize

Such blackouts will become more and more difficult to prevent, as a result of fluctuations in the levels of electricity being fed into the grid from wind turbines. If the transformation of the system proceeds as planned in the next 10 years, wind turbines generating a total of 42 gigawatts will be installed in Germany. By then, photovoltaic systems will be generating about half as much electricity as the wind turbines. This is far more than is needed on some weekends, when demand can drop to less than 30 gigawatts. In other words, if the sun is shining and the wind is blowing at the same time, the grid can be quickly thrown off balance.Today, electric utilities are even paying others to take excess electricity off their hands during nighttime storms. The operators of an Austrian pumped storage hydroelectric power plant use the free energy to pump water into lakes at higher altitudes. Once prices have recovered, they release the water from the lakes, which drives generators that produce electricity that is then sold. They have two reasons to celebrate, says a piqued German utility executive.Such grotesque situations make it clear how urgent it is that the providers modernize the infrastructure and grid management. The companies are about to embark on the most radical change in their history. Power highways that will cost billions to build are needed to connect renewable energy sources in the north and south to the markets in-between. Massive power lines will be installed across Europe, some through desert sand and some on the ocean floor.

Part 2: A Larger, More Flexible, More Intelligent Grid

At the same time, the power companies are also being asked to incorporate a multitude of small and very small energy sources. Homeowners are turning into producers of electricity as they install solar panels on their roofs and cogeneration plants in their basements.What all this means is that the grid doesn't just have to become larger, but also more flexible and, most of all, more intelligent.The intended end result is a giant but intricate power network extending from Norway's reservoirs to solar power plants in North Africa: a so-called smart grid, which uses modern information technology to perfectly coordinate energy distribution, making it more efficient and reliable, a sort of Internet of energy. The radical change in the area of network structure has undoubtedly just begun, say analysts at Deutsche Bank Research.Of course, it is still unclear if things will actually develop the way the strategists envision. There are many hurdles to be overcome, including technical problems that are proving to be a serious challenge for engineers. But the political world is also behind the curve, because Europe's governments have failed to formulate a joint strategy. Under these circumstances, can such an ambitious project even be put into practice?

Smart Meters Increase Consumption Awareness

On a very small scale, some citizens are already getting a glimpse of the new world of intelligent grids. Their old black electricity meters, with their rotating metal disks, have been replaced by digital meters. These so-called smart meters record all data in real time, which allows consumers to determine which of their household devices consume large amounts of electricity. The Frischemeier family, for example, was relatively surprised by the results.Two years ago the couple, who run a parquet flooring business in the western city of Wuppertal, had one of the new digital meters installed, as part of a pilot project by German utility Yello Strom. You have no idea how much electricity a coffeemaker consumes when the hotplate heats up periodically, says Silke Frischemeier. Based on weekly graphs displayed on her computer screen, she can even determine the days on which her three children spent the afternoon at home, watching TV or playing computer games.The Frischemeiers are now much more aware of their electricity use. They have installed power strips in the apartment, they turn off lights when they leave a room and they now take shorter showers. They estimate that their consumption has declined by a fifth.Yello, a subsidiary of the energy company EnBW, can't exactly be interested in selling fewer kilowatt hours. In fact, the company is pursuing a different goal.With the help of the smart meters, electricity service providers like Yello hope to be able to handle fluctuations in the grid more effectively. They are also betting on a classic market mechanism: When they have a lot of electricity available, they reduce prices, making it more attractive for customers to consume more electricity. And thanks to the new meters, customers can now find out about this opportunity for the first time.

Departure from Existing Business Philosophy

The idea is that the smart meters will eventually switch on washing machines during off-peak hours, when electricity is cheapest. Or they will remotely reset the temperature in the freezer from minus 18 degrees Celsius to minus 24, so that the freezer can then be shut off for a while later on, when electricity rates are higher. All household devices will communicate with one another, so that they can be controlled more efficiently, predicts Martin Vesper, managing director of Yello Strom.Ideas like these represent a complete departure from the existing business philosophy. Today, providers base their energy production levels solely on consumption. They always offer precisely the amount of electricity that citizens and industry need at any given time. And they charge a largely uniform price for that electricity, regardless of fluctuations in the load on the grid. In the future, consumption will be adjusted to conform to the fluctuating supply, and prices will fluctuate accordingly. The providers are now feverishly working on variable pricing models, and the development could, to some degree, proceed in a way that resembles the telephone market. In the future, customers could change electricity providers on a case-by-case basis, or they could simply buy entire packets of kilowatt hours at preferred prices, which would essentially amount to a pre-paid electricity system.

On the other hand, anyone who still wants to use as much electricity as he happens to need at a given time will have to pay more for it in the future -- a premium for convenience.There is no doubt that the electricity business will see unprecedented changes in the coming years. New markets will be created along with the smart grid, and enormous sums will be invested.In Germany alone, it will cost the industry an estimated €40 billion ($50 billion) to modernize and expand the grid by 2020. The estimated cost of producing solar electric power in the Mediterranean region and transmitting it to northern Europe is even higher: about €400 billion.As in the days of the American Gold Rush, the equipment makers are the ones who will rake in the profits first.They include smart meter manufacturers like Landis & Gyr, as well as familiar names like Cisco, IBM and T-Systems, which will shoulder the task of guiding the complex flow of power in Grid 2.0. The smart grid will be several times as big as the Internet, predicts Cisco CEO John Chambers.The companies that will benefit most are the suppliers of the hardware, companies like Siemens and ABB, which manufacture and install the necessary generators, distribution stations and high-voltage lines.

Balancing Supply and Demand

Their job is to connect offshore wind farms with the terrestrial grid, a particularly challenging technical task. ABB's engineers, for example, had to address that task 125 kilometers off Germany's North Sea coast, on the Borwin 1 platform.In rough weather, they laid a thick cable through the region's tidal flats. A special ship was used to drive the heavy copper cable (each meter weighs 38 kilograms, or 84 pounds) into place on the sea floor. The cable leads to a transformer station in the East Frisian town of Diele.ABB employs a special technology known as high-voltage direct current (HVDC) transmission for the €300-million project. The method is considered to be ideal for transporting current across long distances. On an HVDC line, only 3 percent of the current is lost for every 1,000 kilometers of transmission. By comparison, the distribution loss on a heavily used alternating current line is almost twice as high for only 100 kilometers.Such high-tech lines are part of a network plan recently unveiled by the European Network of Transmission System Operators for Electricity (ENTSO-E). Under the plan, more than 42,000 kilometers of high-voltage lines will be built or replaced throughout Europe by 2020. The hope is that the larger the grid, the more opportunities there will be to balance supply and demand.

Part 3: Will Consumers Buy it?

Somewhere in Europe, the wind is always blowing or the sun is shining, and all that is needed is to coordinate the balance between excess supply and scarcity. But computers alone are not sufficient. Instead, storage facilities are needed to collect the electricity, store it for days and weeks and release it as needed.
Compressed air reservoirs, for example, store compressed air in underground caverns. In Germany, however, most of these reservoirs are already filled with natural gas. Hydrogen storage systems achieve only a moderate, 40-percent degree of efficiency. Lithium ion batteries are extremely expensive and not very efficient. And the idea of using the batteries of electric cars as a buffer suffers from the fact that there are very few electric cars on the road today.This is why pumped storage hydroelectric power plant are still seen as the most efficient alternative. The technology has been in use for 80 years at the Schluchsee, a reservoir in Germany's southern Black Forest region.Klaus Schneider, the head of technology at the Schluchsee plant, is listening to the sound of the turbine. He has driven 1.5 kilometers through a tunnel and is now standing in a man-made cave in the middle of the mountain. Schneider can tell that the machine is running at maximum speed because of the deep humming noise it makes. Up to 24,500 liters (6,472 gallons) of water shoot down through a pressure shaft every second, coming from the Eggberg reservoir, which is about 400 meters above the Schluchsee. This means that the plant is currently generating electricity, or turbining, as Schneider calls it.

Horrified Local Residents

The mode can be switched within only 90 seconds, so that turbining stops and water is pumped back up to the upper basin. No other system can be adjusted as quickly to whether current is needed or has to be stored at any given time. By comparison, a brown coal power plant takes 12 hours to boot up to full capacity. This flexibility is what makes a pumped storage hydroelectric power plant so valuable.At the Schluchsee, the engineers can experience firsthand how the growing supply of wind energy benefits their plant. They are now switching the machines between turbining and pumping more and more often, with the machines currently being switched between operating modes 60,000 times a year. We have no idea which direction it'll be going in 10 minutes, says Schneider, as the turbine continues to roar.His company now plans to build another power plant in the region, in the town of Atdorf. At a site where a hiking path now passes along a ridge, a reservoir will be dug and a tunnel will be excavated through gneiss and granite, 600 meters down to a second reservoir on the Rhine River plain.Many local residents are horrified by the idea. In Atdorf, about 110 hectares (272 acres) of land will have to be sacrificed for the pumped storage hydroelectric power plant. But what would be the alternative? The area surrounding the Schluchsee is practically custom-made for pumped-storage power generation.Paradoxically, even though everyone supports turning away from oil, coal and gas and the growing use of the use of solar and wind power, with many even accepting billions in subsidies in return, citizens are often completely unwilling to accept the need to transport and store energy.

Open-Heart Surgery

Citizens' initiatives form wherever new swathes are to be cut into forests, demanding that if new power cables are necessary, they should only be buried deep underground. But this is often five times as expensive as installing above-ground transmission lines.The network operator Transpower is currently installing a 60-kilometer high-voltage line from Ganderkesee in Lower Saxony to St. Hülfe, a €160-million project. Only 8 kilometers of the line will be buried underground, but that portion of the project is eating up €100 million, or more than half of the total cost. If society is willing to pay for this, we'll do it, Transpower executive Lex Hartman says matter-of-factly. In other words, electricity will simply become more expensive.The lack of social acceptance, complains ENTSO-E, could seriously delay or jeopardize the implementation of expansion projects, not to mention the difficulties that crop up when new technologies are being used.The HVDC systems are considered relatively vulnerable, particularly the giant converter stations that convert direct current into alternating current. The connection between the Netherlands and Norway, which has been in place for a year and a half, was out of commission for three months because of a cable defect.The expansion of the alternating current grid is also causing problems. Because today's high-voltage grid, with a maximum capacity of 380 kilovolts, is reaching its limits, the construction of individual 740-kilovolt lines is under consideration. The 70-meter-high pylons are enormous and they require a 100-meter-wide corridor -- an unlikely alternative in densely populated Germany.

Besides, the focus on a few, heavily loaded transit hubs poses the risk that a breakdown could jeopardize the stability of the entire network. All the changes are essentially open-heart surgery, warns Amprion grid planner Gerald Kaendler.There is also something else clouding the grand visions: It is highly uncertain as to whether consumers will even want to take advantage of the possibilities smart meters offer. To save a few cents, will they give up the convenience of being able to wash their clothes at any time instead of only when electricity is cheap? A large share of customers don't want change, says Holger Krawinkel of the Federation of German Consumer Organizations.The current electric meters tend to be of limited intelligence, and communication with electronic devices in the household often fails because of a lack of standards. Besides, privacy groups warn that smart meters are not hacker-proof.In the end, the contribution consumers make to the grid revolution will likely remain modest. Instead, the speed at which the power lines and storage facilities are upgraded and expanded in Germany will have a decisive impact on the smart grid. Political will is also a critical factor. In that respect, each government is still going its own way.This becomes glaringly obvious when one considers the strange consequences that result from different approaches to promoting renewable energy. The Dutch network operation Tennet is considering laying an underwater cable from the Netherlands to Denmark, but it will not connect the German wind farms to the cable, even though they are located halfway along the proposed route. The reason is that German consumers subsidize wind power by paying a fixed price for it, and that price is significantly higher than the Danes or the Dutch would be willing to pay.

Maintaining a Sacred Equilibrium

Clearly it will take some time before the grid has been expanded throughout Europe and is intelligent enough to run itself. Until then, Amprion Managing Director Kleinekorte and his team will have to resort to their empirical values to preserve balance in the grid. An indicator in the bottom right-hand corner of their world view screen in Brauweiler shows them whether their efforts are succeeding.The needle fluctuates back and forth, from left to right, but always returns to the vertical, which is marked as 50 Hertz. This frequency indicates that the grid operators are feeding precisely as much current into the grid as users are consuming -- it is a sacred equilibrium that is proving more and more difficult to maintain. Or, as Kleinekorte puts it: The fidgeting of the frequency has increased.According to Kleinekort, the situation would already be critical if the frequency dropped to 49.8 Hertz. If that happened, all of his counterparts throughout Europe would have to activate their reserves. And what if the frequency were to slide down even farther? Then we would really have a problem.Translated from the German by Christopher Sultan

http://www.connect-world.com/index.php/white-papers/item/2685-smart-grid-the-evolution-of-energy-management-and-conservation?tmpl=component&print=1

Design Article-RF meets power lines: designing intelligent smart grid systems that promote energy efficiency Ronn Kliger, Energy Group Director, Analog Devices, Inc. 3/5/2010 3:45 PM EST

There is a great deal of excitement surrounding the smart grid roll-out happening worldwide as it promises to make the delivery of electricity more efficient, reliable, environmentally friendly, and cost-effective. Governments around the world are investing is smart grid deployments. For example, the U.S. government has earmarked $4.5 billion, while in China, a 4 trillion yuan ($596 billion) smart grid investment is underway.Since electrical grids and electrical consumption differ by region, the adopted smart grid communication technologies vary around the world. In the United States, for example, wireless technology is dominating and utilities are seeking to standardize their communication solutions across electric, water, and gas meters as well as various devices inside the home, including thermostats, appliances, and HVAC systems.The common need for these various communication points is low-power, robust communication. With this in place, utilities and consumers can both monitor and adjust electrical consumption behaviors. For example, during peak-demand hours, the delay of non-critical consumption activities such as pool pumps or laundry reduces the burden on the grid. Voluntary programs allowing utilities to adjust thermostat settings achieve valuable energy savings with no noticeable impact on consumers. The key requirement in these applications is that communication links be established from the utility to the meter and to various devices within the home.

The biggest challenge is to minimize the power consumption of communications devices while ensuring that robust, responsive communications occur when required. Energy meters are often placed in challenging locations (such as basements) and can be subject to interference from vehicles driving by and other transmitting sources of RF energy. These challenges are solved by close collaboration between providers of communication devices (RF transceivers, processors, for example), providers of communication software, and designers of communication systems. Only by obtaining a deep understanding of the communication environment, the communication objectives, and the relevant trade-offs and constraints, can optimal solutions be developed.
Collaboration between technology suppliers and designers is critical to a successful system in order to capitalize on all the technologies that support and enhance smart grid applications. For example, smart grid technology developers look to a wide range of advanced digital and analog signal-processing technology to power next-generation energy infrastructure, including innovative energy-metering ICs, radio-frequency transceivers, and power-line monitoring data converters. It takes a full set of functional blocks to build a complete, viable system:

•New energy-metering ICs enable designers to improve the accuracy and performance of commercial, industrial, and residential smart meters.
•Short-range RF transceivers offer designers a low-power, high-performance transceiver designed for operation in the license-free ISM bands at 433 MHz, 868 MHz, and 915 MHz.
•Simultaneous-sampling analog-to-digital converters provide the resolution and performance needed for next-generation power-line-monitoring systems.
By leveraging integrated circuits optimized for a range of smart grid applications, from energy metering solutions to dynamic, grid-integrated management and communication systems, today's developers are able to design intelligent systems that promote energy efficiency and management flexibility.

New communication capabilities being installed in the grid will enable demand-shifting away from peak to off-peak hours, thereby making better use of utilities' existing infrastructure and also lowering costs for customers. Such capabilities, coupled with advanced sensing technologies, will give utilities greater visibility into the operation of their grid and allow them to better control quality, prevent blackouts, and respond more quickly to disturbances.These improvements in grid management are necessary to accommodate renewable sources of energy such as solar and wind where the generation profile of electricity is unpredictable and sources of such energy may be distributed in many locations across the grid.

About the author

Ronn Kliger is Energy Group director for Analog Devices, Inc. (ADI), where he is responsible for addressing the growing technology needs in the smart grid and related areas. He works closely with customers to address requirements for metering, substation automation, and emerging applications such as solar/wind generation, energy storage, and others. Ronn has been with Analog Devices for 14 years and, prior to this, spent fifteen years at Raytheon Company holding various positions in engineering, program management, and marketing. He received a BSEE from the Georgia Institute of Technology in 1984, an MSEE from the University of Southern California in 1986, and an MBA from Northeastern University in 1997. He can be reached at ronn.kliger@analog.com

Obama Pushes Chinese-Style Internet ID System
Paul Joseph Watson Infowars.com April 18, 2011
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ATbQnT0MSlM&feature=player_embedded
http://www.infowars.com/obama-pushes-chinese-style-internet-id-system/

A new program being touted by the Obama administration as a solution to online identity theft actually increases the risk of identity theft while providing the government with a national ID system through the backdoor, paving the way for a world wide web in which users will need government permission to access the Internet.
The so-called National Strategy for Trusted Identities in Cyberspace, created by NIST under the auspices of the U.S. Commerce Department, purports to offer an identity ecosystem under which Americans will be able to protect their information not with passwords but with a single credential stored on a smart card, a cell phone, a keychain fob or some other kind of gadget. This will then be used to access a myriad of data, including tax returns, health information, bank accounts and more, amounting to a passport for your entire life.Companies like Siemens developed credit card-sized gadgets years ago that enable fingerprints to be used to approve online transactions and the technology is already well established. A series of workshops are planned for June to September during which the government will nail down specifics with companies who are on board with the project and pilot projects will be launched next year.The program bears more than a passing resemblance to a 2007 proposal by China that threatened to force bloggers to register their real identities and personal details via a single centralized ID system as a means for the Communist government to control information and punish dissenters.

That idea was scrapped for being too draconian, but the Obama administration is pushing ahead with its own Internet ID system in pursuit of a wider cybersecurity agenda that Senator Joe Lieberman has publicly stated is aimed at mimicking Chinese-style censorship of the world wide web, casting doubt on assertions in the government PR video for the program embedded above that claim, there is no central database tracking your actions.The irony of the fact that the program will be managed by a government that has routinely stolen and lost personal information (including that related to personal health data) through both malevolence and incompetence is not addressed in the propaganda video. Remember cash for clunkers? This is the same government that openly admitted it had seized control of data on Americans’ computers who used the cars.gov website.Although the program will initially be voluntary, its widespread adoption by numerous internet hub giants will eventually make its use necessary for conducting any kind of transaction, creating profiles or engaging in any interactive process on the web.Moreover, should there be a major cyber attack that cripples the web and leaves sensitive information vulnerable, the Obama administration would have all the political capital it needs to turn the voluntary program into a compulsory requirement for anyone who wishes to use the Internet. Given the fact that the Stuxnet worm attack was admittedly launched by the United States and Israel, the culprits are likely to be closer to home than we think.Although the White House is describing the NSTIC plan as voluntary, federal agencies could begin to require it for IRS e-filing, applying for Social Security or veterans’ benefits, renewing passports online, requesting federal licenses (including ham radio and pilot’s licenses), and so on. Then obtaining one of these ID would become all but mandatory for most Americans, writes CNet’s Declan McCullagh.Taken to its logical conclusion, the program, Could become the virtual equivalent of a national ID card, he adds.Despite government assurances that the conspiracy theory set are wrong in highlighting privacy concerns, critics have labeled the plan an effort to impose a national ID card via the backdoor.

Writing for Network World, Mark Gibbs slammed the proposal as, A totally ridiculous idea. A great example of rampant, over-reaching, ignorant, and ill-conceived political foolishness.Gibbs highlights the fact that both the IRS and Homeland Security have recently been caught abusing and mismanaging online identity systems.
In short, the government, at the heart of its most sensitive public and administrative services, is incompetent on a biblical scale. And now they propose to provide what is, in essence, the management of a single sign-on system that would impact tens of millions of its citizens,he writes.In addition, the centralized nature of the system will not protect identity theft, the entire raison d’être behind the program, but will instead make identity theft far more prevalent and easier for criminals.It remains unclear whether the White House proposal will solve this problem or create new problems, said Marc Rotenberg, president of the Electronic Privacy Information Center, warning that if the system was compromised it would be like losing your whole wallet, not just your keys or credit card. There is the real risk that consolidated identity schemes will lead to hyper identity theft.