This is a summary overview of the Smart Home

• Part Three of the Home Energy Puzzle
• Potential to Integrate PV
• Potential to Integrate EV
• Manages All Power Sources and Loads
• Smart Home – Good Grid Citizen
• Common Myths and Misconceptions
• Current Smart Home Offerings
• Current Smart Home Economics

Part Three of the Home Energy Puzzle

You may be wondering as to the significance of our tagline “…connecting the dots”. Throughout this website we will continually expand upon this notion of bringing together Solar PV, Electric Vehicles (EV) and Smart Home technologies. We believe that this triad of technologies not only add to each other’s value but that they cannot achieve widespread adoption on their own.

Part one of the home energy puzzle was Solar PV… the harvesting of clean abundant Solar power to generate electricity (Find out more).

Part two is the Electric Vehicle or EV, opening up an opportunity for clean, quiet transportation, free from the need for oil.

Part three is the Smart Home, which in our opinion will be the key to optimizing all these new power technologies. As Solar starts to gain widespread acceptance, it can hammer the grid. The same for EV’s. It’s only when these significant power components are orchestrated properly, do they shift from a grid liability to a grid asset.

Potential to Integrate PV

Discussion of impact of integrating PV

Potential to Integrate EV

Discussion of impact of integrating an EV

Manages All Power Sources and Loads

Discussion of orchestration (balancing) all sources and loads

Smart Home – Good Grid Citizen

Discussion of the Smart Home being an intelligent microgrid “node” on the overall utility grid

Common Myths and Misconceptions

Myth #1 – Solar Adoption has a Hard Limit of 15% to Avoid Grid Instability
Myth #2 – Solar Net Metering is unfair to those that have not yet converted to Solar
Myth #3 – The Grid Cannot Handle Widespread Adoption of Electric Vehicles
Myth #4 – The Grid Cannot Handle Widespread Adoption of Electric Vehicles

Current Smart Home Components

Although this Smart Home graphic is a complete configuration, we will highlight only those components pertinent to our discussion… Smart Home components including Nest, Geli, CES smart panel, LiIon batteries, etc.

Current Smart Home Economics

Discussion of the Smart Home economics including local storage and ability to participate in grid services. Not much incentive other than local storage and energy star deductions. Need detail of grid support economics.