{"id":155,"date":"2010-03-08T23:52:59","date_gmt":"2010-03-09T04:52:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.greenneedham.org\/blog\/?p=155"},"modified":"2010-03-24T15:00:03","modified_gmt":"2010-03-24T20:00:03","slug":"green-needham-meeting-april-14th","status":"publish","type":"tribe_events","link":"https:\/\/www.greenneedham.org\/blog\/event\/green-needham-meeting-april-14th\/","title":{"rendered":"Green Needham Meeting &#8211; April 14th"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Our next Green Needham meeting will feature a conversation about the <strong>Smart Grid<\/strong> with <strong>Needham resident<\/strong> and <strong>NStar Vice President of Engineering Larry Gelbien<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>Please mark your calendars for <strong>Wednesday<\/strong>, <strong>April 14th<\/strong> at <strong>7:30 pm<\/strong>.  (<span style=\"color:red;\"><b>Please note this is a change of date.<\/b><\/span>) <\/p>\n<p><strong>Smart Grid<\/strong> is shorthand for a range of initiatives to improve and ultimately transform the electric grid, the vital network we depend on to deliver electricity to our homes and businesses 24 hours a day, 7 days a week.  Managing the grid isn&#8217;t just a matter of moving electricity from one place to another.  Electricity can&#8217;t be stored so grid operators are constantly balancing supply and demand in real time.  An effective system not only ensures that we have electricity when we need it, it also plays a role in how much we pay for it.<\/p>\n<p>Larry will talk about several NStar Smart Grid initiatives, including:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Grid Self Healing<\/strong> &#8211; today, utility consumer have to report outages and the utility dispatches crews to make repairs.  A smart grid detects failures and makes adjustments to keep power flowing until repairs can be made, reducing costs and outages<\/li>\n<li><strong>Real-time metering<\/strong> &#8211; Making choices that change how and when we use electricity can save consumers money and reduce the need to build additional power plants.  Real-time metering will make that possible because it will allow utilities to know how much electricity they&#8217;re using at any moment.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>We&#8217;ll also share the latest information about using your home electronics and appliances efficiently &#8211; you may be surprised by what your hear!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Our next Green Needham meeting will feature a conversation about the Smart Grid with Needham resident and NStar Vice President of Engineering Larry Gelbien. Please mark your calendars for Wednesday, April 14th at 7:30 pm. (Please note this is a<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"template":"","meta":{"_EventAllDay":false,"_EventTimezone":"America\/New_York","_EventStartDate":"2010-04-14 19:30:00","_EventEndDate":"2010-04-14 21:00:00","_EventStartDateUTC":"2010-04-14 23:30:00","_EventEndDateUTC":"2010-04-15 01:00:00","_EventShowMap":false,"_EventShowMapLink":false,"_EventURL":"","_EventCost":"","_EventCostDescription":"","_EventCurrencySymbol":"","_EventCurrencyCode":"","_EventCurrencyPosition":"","_EventDateTimeSeparator":"","_EventTimeRangeSeparator":"","_EventOrganizerID":[],"_EventVenueID":[2067],"_OrganizerEmail":"","_OrganizerPhone":"","_OrganizerWebsite":"","_VenueAddress":"","_VenueCity":"","_VenueCountry":"","_VenueProvince":"","_VenueState":"","_VenueZip":"","_VenuePhone":"","_VenueURL":"","_VenueStateProvince":"","_VenueLat":"","_VenueLng":"","_VenueShowMap":false,"_VenueShowMapLink":false,"_tribe_events_status":"","_tribe_events_status_reason":"","footnotes":""},"tags":[],"tribe_events_cat":[],"class_list":["post-155","tribe_events","type-tribe_events","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.greenneedham.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tribe_events\/155","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.greenneedham.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tribe_events"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.greenneedham.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/tribe_events"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.greenneedham.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.greenneedham.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tribe_events\/155\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.greenneedham.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=155"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.greenneedham.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=155"},{"taxonomy":"tribe_events_cat","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.greenneedham.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tribe_events_cat?post=155"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}