Responding to sources

Martin, Mike. (2010, July/August). The Great Green Grid. 21, 23-29.

http://search.proquest.com.ezproxy.hacc.edu/pqrl/docview/577663735/13D1E28640474BD99C8/6?accountid=11302

“The Great Green Grid” article says about how the grid we have now just moves electricity in one direction and the smart grid. If installed, would allow electronics to communicate with each other and help manage customers’ energy costs and usage. This article also speaks about who is going to pay for the smart grid and how politics are likely to slow efforts for finding consumers to pay for the new grid ahead of time. The smart grid requires monitoring technology in every home to see how families are using more then what they need for electricity. Pilot programs are happening from small to big picture already and say how different states are already installing smart grids or even trying to do better than the smart grid and make up their own way of renewable energy electricity.

The passage that interests me is about privacy concerns that go with the smart grid and if the smart grid is installed. Then there will be monitoring of homes and families will not have much privacy and this passage surprises me because I did not know the smart grid needed to have monitoring technology in homes in order to make a difference with cost and security. My question about the information that might be worth investigating is how a pilot project have anything to do with the smart grid. This question is important to me because it would help me make more sense about the smart grid and help me understand what pilot projects means.

Greenfield, Dave. (2009, November 9). Is the smart grid a dumb idea. 26, S10-S11, S14-S16, S18-S20

http://search.proquest.com.ezproxy.hacc.edu/pqrl/docview/198553536/13D1E83658E4AB5C7E2/35?accountid=11302

This source agrees with what my first source says about the smart grid and how it will help improve homes and companies. I see this source agreeing with my first source from how my second source says about blackouts occurring more and more every year. Also my second source agrees with how the smart grid could improve security, reliability, and have a green footprint to help the world also. The second source speaks about how the smart grid is going to get funded and agrees with that other states are already developing the smart grid.