Integration costs, those costs of managing the intermittency of renewable (variable) generation, are highly dependent on grid management practices.
"Anyone in grid management in the United States would be looking at it," Ms. Webster said.
A variety of devices may qualify, including meters, grid management software and other equipment.
Sixty-seven percent of electrical energy, for example, is lost because of inefficient power generation and grid management.
"The biggest solutions to the coming deliverability crisis will be residential solar, energy storage and improved grid management," he said.
Over the last decade, eMeter has built smart grid management software for electric, gas and water utilities in the US, Canada, Europe, Australia and New Zealand.
The demands of grid management mean the state needs to be free to cut the power of at least 50percentt of all users.
They are now preparing for the next round when they will present in detail their technical and financial concepts for grid management.
The firm's engineers reckon that clever grid management will allow up to 30% of local power to come from wind without any blackouts.
Scale-free systems guarantee aggregation that is useful in building automation, sensors grid management and power generator grids.
