Smart Grid technology is likely to be implemented in various magnitudes across utilities
in the near future. To accommodate these technologies significant changes will have to
be incorporated in building design construction and planning. This research paper
attempts to evaluate public utility executives’ plans to adopt smart grid technologies and
to assess timing of smart grid impacts on future design and construction practices.
Telephone survey was the data collection method used to collect information from
executives at cooperative and municipal utilities. The study focuses on small and
medium utilities with more than five thousand customers and fewer than one hundred
thousand customers. A stratified random sampling approach was applied and sample
results for fifty-nine survey responses were used to predict the timing of smart grid
implementation and the timing of smart grid impacts on future design and construction
practices.
Results of this research indicate that design and construction professionals should
already be developing knowledge and experience to accommodate smart grid impacts on
the built environment.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:tamu.edu/oai:repository.tamu.edu:1969.1/ETD-TAMU-2010-08-8428 |
| Date | 2010 August 1900 |
| Creators | Rao, Ameya Vinayak |
| Contributors | Jackson, Jerry, Horlen, Joe |
| Source Sets | Texas A and M University |
| Language | en_US |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | thesis, text |
| Format | application/pdf |
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