Smart grids, renewable resources integrated more easily thanks to technology

"This collaboration will help simplify and propagate demand response-based energy efficiency to millions of off-the-shelf commercial and consumer devices via the latest OpenADR data profile, benefiting energy consumers and utilities alike," Candi Controls CEO Steve Raschke told the news source regarding the firm's partnership with IPKeys toward this end.

In fact, smart grid solutions that drive the integration of wind and solar power with consumer networks was ranked in MIT Technology Review's top breakthrough technologies for 2014. According to the report, investments into this field are booming, and the amount of power the nation uses derived from wind alone has more than doubled since 2009. Furthermore, solar utilization has increased at a jaw-dropping rate, despite still lagging behind wind usage by nearly 10 years.

"We've got a line of sight to where we want to go in the long term with our energy and environment goals," Bryan Hannegan, director of the National Renewable Energy Laboratory in Golden, Colorado, told the news source regarding these improvements. "That's not something we've been able to say before."

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