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Configuring The Urban Smart Grid: Transitions, Experimentation, And Governance, Anthony Michael Levenda
Configuring The Urban Smart Grid: Transitions, Experimentation, And Governance, Anthony Michael Levenda
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In the face of challenges of energy security, decarbonization, resilience, and the replacement of aging infrastructure systems, federal, state, and local actors are facilitating the development of smart electricity networks to transition towards a more sustainable electricity system. In the United States, development of "smart grids" is being pursued as a national policy mandate and goal, promising that the deployment of smart grid technologies -- referring in general to digital information and communication technologies that sense, monitor, control and manage the electric grid -- will make electricity systems more environmentally sustainable and reliable, and at the same time, provide opportunities …