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Vulnerable Households and the Smart Grid in Ontario

出版	Metcalf Foundation, 2016
ISBN	192790613X9781927906132
URL	http://books.google.com.hk/books?id=qFcstAEACAAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api

註釋Green Prosperity Papers Vulnerable Households and the Smart Grid in Ontario Emerging Challenges and Opportunities - by Ian H. Rowlands and Gord Stephen July 2016 Metcalf Foundation Acknowledgements The mission of The George Cedric Metcalf Preliminary versions of this report Charitable Foundation is to enhance the were presented at the Annual Workshop effectiveness of people and organizations of th [...] The information and views set out in this report are those of the authors and do Gord Stephen not necessarily reflect the positions of any other individual or organization including Gord Stephen is a former Research those identified above and those interview- Associate with the University of Waterloo's ees listed at the end. [...] Given the scale and complexity of the task of envisioning and realizing such a transformation, the Foundation sought to elicit a multiplicity of views and opinions, with a particular focus on southern Ontario. [...] The smart grid provides opportunities to: reduce costs; create jobs; facilitate the integration of renewable energy resources to mitigate global climate change; enhance energy service reliability; and engage the network connectivity of multiple objects in the home, also known as the "internet of things."21 Much work, worldwide, is underway with respect to future visions of the smart grid and how s [...] Emerging Challenges and Opportunities 17 Alternatively, for those who "fear that low-income elderly and disabled customers would face barriers to properly understand the technology and to make the payments for the prepaid service,"43 the development of the smart grid is a "negative." Moreover, there is a concern that smart grid-enabled prepayment arrangements make it easier for low-income househol.