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The UCLA Smart Grid Energy Research Center (SMERC), located on the University of California Los Angeles (UCLA) campus, is an organization focused on developing the next generation of technologies and innovation for the SmartGrid. Partnerships with government, technology providers, DOE research labs and universities, utilities, policy makers, and electric vehicle and appliance manufacturers provide SMERC with diverse capabilities and exceptional, matured leadership. The organizations ever-growing developments are created with the intention to satisfy the Smart Grid by allowing an increase in grid flexibility, integration of renewable energy sources, competitive energy pricing, improved efficiencies, and reduce power outages and losses. Overall SMERC's developments will provide a service by being more responsive to the market, consumer, and society in general. Currently, SMERC is performing research on Microgrids, Automated Demand Response, Electric Vehicle Integration (G2V and V2g), Cybersecurity, and Distributed and renewable integration. All technology and research is being developed and collected at UCLA's Henry Samueli School of Engineering and Applied Science by a team of well experienced staff and the school's graduate students. SMERC has collaborations with USC and Caltech/JPL, LADWP in a smart grid demonstration project.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title= Building the 'smart grid' )〕 Internationally, SMERC has connected with the Korea Institute of Energy Research (KIER). "The partnership involves SMERC testing for the development of the software and platform involved in smart grid technology, while KIER focuses on various renewable energy technologies, such as solar, wind and fuel cells, as well as wireless communications and semiconductor systems." 〔(【引用サイトリンク】title= UCLA teams with Korean energy research institute on smart grid )〕 == Background == "While the electrical grid in the United States is very reliable, it is currently somewhat limited in its ability to incorporate new renewable energy sources; to effectively manage demand response; to sense and monitor trouble spots; and to repair itself."〔(【引用サイトリンク】title= UCLA Smart Grid Energy Research Center (SMERC) celebrates its start )〕 This reliability will not last if the grid systems stay the same as populations rise and electricity demands rise. This demand calls for innovative technologies and systems to provide and manage demand response, sensory/monitor repair, and self-repair to help stabilize the grid. SMERC has been building these technologies since the fall of 2004. The system also calls for better efficiently among energy generators and savers. Today, the current grid in North America is very old and in many areas, up to 100 years old. The grid is inflexible and must be modernized to handle the intermittency of renewable energy sources (solar power, wind turbines, etc.). These energy sources, if resourced properly will prove to be valuable to the grid, providing it with energy that is currently wasted. With this high demand for electricity, there is a tremendous opportunity in the United States for innovation between the current electric grid and the next generations of systems using RFID and Integrated Sensors, Information, and Wireless technologies. With awareness in Smart Grid growing, questions about what the new modernized grid will be like are being asked. Unfortunately there is no clear answer to what the grid will look like. For instance, it is like predicting what an apple computer would be capable of accomplishing today when the first apple computer was released in 1976 (36 years ago).〔(【引用サイトリンク】title= Homebrew and How the Apple Came to be )〕 There is now enormous opportunity for experimentation, creativity, and research in Smart Grid technology. Entrepreneurs, universities, and other innovators are in the process of creating indescribable possibilities for the future Smart Grid. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Smart Grid Energy Research Center」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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