The Australian government has announced that the country's largest
energy supplier and retailer, EnergyAustralia, will lead a $100 million "Smart Grid,
Smart City" project in the state of New South Wales that will begin
later this year. The project will be a little bit of everything when it
comes to smart grid, from substation
automation and charging
stations for electric vehicles to home area networks and
time-of-use pricing.
The focus for this demonstration will not be world-renowned Sydney,
but rather the small city of Newcastle, about 100 miles to the north.
The consortium led by EnergyAustralia
also includes IBM Australia, AGL,
GE Energy, TransGrid,
Newcastle City Council and the NSW Government.
Although Newcastle is the center point of the project, there will also be trials in Scone, downtown Sydney, Ku-ring-gai and Newington. There will be a total of 50,000 smart meters and about 15,000 homes that will be given in-home energy management systems to track electricity, water use and CO2 emissions.
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