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Something good about the smart city: a human-centered account of why the future of electricity is local. Resilience now matters most, and most resilience is local--even for that most universal, foundational modern resource: the electric power grid. Today that technological marvel is changing more rapidly than it has for a lifetime, and in our new grid awareness, community microgrids have become a fascinating catalyst for cultural value change. In Downtime on the Microgrid , Malcolm McCullough offers a thoughtful counterpoint to the cascade of white papers on smart clean infrastructure. Writing from an experiential perspective, McCullough avoids the usual smart city futurism, technological solutionism, policy acronyms, green idealism, critical theory jargon, and doomsday prepping to provide new cultural context for a subject long a favorite theme in science and technology studies. McCullough describes the three eras of North American electrification: innovation, consolidation, and decentralization. He considers the microgrid boom and its relevance to the built environment as "architecture's grid edge." Finally, he argues that resilience arises from clusters; although a microgrid is often described as an island, future resilience will require archipelagos--clusters of microgrids, with a two-way, intermittent connectiveness that is very different from the always-on, top-down technofuture we may be expecting. With Downtime on the Microgrid, McCullough rises above techno-hype to find something good about the smart city and reassuring about local resilience.

Aménagement urbain --- Réseau --- Villes et groupements habités --- Electricité --- Microgrids (Smart power grids) --- MGs (Smart power grids) --- Micro-grids (Smart power grids) --- Mini-grids (Smart power grids) --- Electric power distribution --- Smart power grids --- Small power production facilities --- Smart cities --- Minirésaux électriques intelligents --- Petites centrales électriques --- Villes intelligentes --- Social aspects --- Aspect social --- Social aspects. --- Cities and towns --- Small-scale power production facilities --- Electric power-plants

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The smart grid is a convenient term to describe the modernization of electric, natural gas, and water grid infrastructures. The term encapsulates the convergence of remote monitoring and control technologies with communications technologies, renewables generation, and analytics capabilities so that previously non-communicative infrastructures like electricity grids can provide time-sensitive status updates and deliver situational awareness. While initially and mostly focused on electricity, many of the same technologies, particularly in information and communications technologies or ICT apply to natural gas and water grids. This book addresses privacy in all three of these consumables, but electricity occupies a unique place by virtue of the fact that we can produce it as well as consume it. In addition, existing technologies make it easier to get many more measurements about electricity than gas or water. These two unique qualities about electricity have very interesting ramifications for privacy, and therefore, this book will refer to electricity and electricity use cases because that provides the best framework for discussion of this important topic--

Smart power grids --- Public utilities --- Consumer protection --- Privacy, Right of --- Records --- Security measurea --- Security measures --- Access control --- Municipal utilities --- Public-service corporations (Public utilities) --- Utilities, Public --- Utility companies --- Municipal franchises --- Grids, Smart power --- Power grids, Smart --- Smart grids (Electric power distribution) --- Electric power distribution --- Automation --- Smart power grids - Security measures - United States --- Public utilities - Security measures - United States --- Consumer protection - United States --- Privacy, Right of - United States --- Records - Access control - United States