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Public/Private Partnership Creates Opportunity to Fundamentally Address Local Energy Crises
Nov. 20, 2008 — A ground-breaking approach to electricity distribution and management will provide the long-awaited blueprint needed to eliminate power outages, incorporate renewable energy sources, meet rising demand for high-quality power … Full Article
In related news, over the next decade, IIT will embark on its Smart Grid Initiative to expand the Perfect Power System and create a national academic and research-focused Smart Grid Center.
The center will focus on the key technology advances needed for the effective development of the smart grid. The following news sources featured the project:
Reuters.com (PDF)
SmartGridNews.com (PDF)
IIT's collaboration with the University of Illinois, State of Illinois, and Oak Park on smart grid technology was also featured in the Chicago Sun-Times. Full Article
IIT's Perfect Power project, which implements smart grid technology, was featured in "In Search of Perfect Power" the cover story of Power Magazine's April edition. Full Article
The Perfect Power project at IIT was featured in the May 19 Economist article, "Smart Move: The push for a more intelligent grid." Full Article
A Medill Reports article February 19, "Chicago electric utilities are getting 'smart,'" discusses Perfect Power at IIT and includes information about the project from both Electrical and Computer Engineering Chair Mohammad Shahidehpour and IIT Board of Trustees Regent, founder of Galvin Electricity Initiative and former CEO of Motorola Bob Galvin. Full Article
The IIT/Galvin Electricity Initiative project to bring Perfect Power smart microgrid technology to IIT's Main Campus is discussed in the February 14 Chicago Sun-Times article, "Power shift: Old name behind new design for IIT electricity delivery." Full Article
Kurt Yeager, executive director of the Galvin Electricity Initiative, was interviewed for National Public Radio's "Talk of the Nation" on February 13 discussing the use of smart grids as a way to modernize America's electrical transmission and mentions Perfect Power at IIT. Online Clip
The November/December issue of IEEE Power & Energy Magazine included an editorial from ECE Chair Mohammad Shahidehpour on energy efficiency and the Perfect Power System, an article by Kurt Yeager, executive director of the Galvin Electricity Initiative titled, "Striving for Power Perfection," which discusses the implementation of the Perfect Power System at IIT and includes a diagram of the university's new high reliability distribution system, and an article written by IIT Electrical Engineering Professors Alex Flueck and Zuyi Li on the "journey to Perfect Power at IIT."