南方公司如何改變?yōu)橹悄芗揖有袠I(yè)

南方公司的Smart communities®如何改變?yōu)橹悄芗揖有袠I(yè)

Energy efficiency starts in the home. In Alabama and Georgia, the future looks brighter than ever, thanks to Smart Neighborhood initiatives that two of Southern Company’s subsidiaries, Alabama Power and Georgia Power, have launched. These smart homes provide customers with state-of-the-art home construction, distributed energy resources and smart home appliances and technologies.

能效始于家庭。在阿拉巴馬州和喬治亞州，由于南方電力公司的兩家子公司阿拉巴馬電力公司和喬治亞電力公司推出了“智能社區(qū)”計劃，未來看起來比以往任何時候都更加光明。這些智能家居為客戶提供最先進的住宅建設、分布式能源、智能家電和技術。

The Smart Neighborhoods – located in the Birmingham suburb of Hoover and Atlanta’s upper Westside – were built as part of Southern Company’s research initiative to determine what homes and smart home automation will look like in 2040. The homes in these communities are among the most energy-efficient in the country, with improved reliability, increased use of distributed energy resources and decreased operating costs.

這些智能小區(qū)位于伯明翰郊區(qū)胡佛和亞特蘭大上西區(qū)，是南方公司研究計劃的一部分，目的是確定2040年家庭和智能家居自動化將會是什么樣子。這些社區(qū)的房屋是全國最節(jié)能的房屋之一，可靠性得到提高，分布式能源的使用增加，運營成本降低。

Each home is “built with future energy codes and standards in mind,” said Latanza Adjei, Georgia Power VP of sales and marketing, adding that they are equipped with “all of the things it takes to make sure that these homes use less energy than most of the homes around.”

佐治亞電力公司銷售和營銷副總裁拉坦莎·阿德吉(Latanza Adjei)說，每棟房屋都“考慮到未來的能源法規(guī)和標準”，并補充說，他們配備了“所有能確保這些房屋比周圍大多數(shù)房屋使用更少能源的東西”。

Those items include either a community-scale microgrid or rooftop solar panels and battery energy storage, as well as a super-tight building envelope, comprehensive duct-sealing, triple-pane windows, a radiant barrier roof decking, smart thermostats, connected and controllable heat pump water heaters, air-source heat pumps and electric vehicle chargers. The homes’ automation and security packages include smart door locks, lights and voice control.

這些項目包括社區(qū)規(guī)模的微電網或屋頂太陽能電池板和電池儲能，以及超緊密的建筑圍護結構、全面的管道密封、三窗格窗戶、輻射屏障屋頂甲板、智能恒溫器、連接和可控的熱泵熱水器、空氣源熱泵和電動汽車充電器。這些家庭的自動化和安全設備包括智能門鎖、電燈和語音控制。

And that’s just on the inside. At Reynolds Landing, the Alabama Power Smart Neighborhood has a community-scale microgrid. Designed, engineered and deployed by PowerSecure, it’s the first-of-its-kind in the Southeast and helps ensure resiliency, which means that even when the traditional grid is offline, the homes can be powered by PowerSecure.

這只是在里面。在雷諾茲著陸，阿拉巴馬州電力智能社區(qū)有一個社區(qū)規(guī)模的微電網。它由PowerSecure設計部署，是東南部第一個此類設備，有助于確保彈性，這意味著即使傳統(tǒng)電網離線，家庭也可以使用PowerSecure供電。

The features “seamlessly enhance the experience of our customers in their everyday lives,” said Todd Rath, Alabama Power marketing services director.

阿拉巴馬州電力營銷服務總監(jiān)托德•拉斯(Todd Rath)表示，這些功能“無縫地提升了我們客戶在日常生活中的體驗”。

“Having the ability to monitor your energy usage at your fingertips definitely makes a huge difference,” said Hannah Kennedy, a resident of Reynolds Landing.

雷諾茲蘭丁的居民漢娜肯尼迪(Hannah Kennedy)說:“用指尖就能監(jiān)測你的能源使用情況，這肯定會帶來很大的不同。”

Jim Leverette, Southern Company research and development engineer, said “the initiative at its heart is a research project to understand the future of energy.”

南方公司研發(fā)工程師吉姆•萊弗里特(Jim Leverette)表示:“該計劃的核心是一個了解能源未來的研究項目。”

“By incorporating high-performance homes, smart technology, rooftop solar and microgrids, we are able to understand how the interactions of all these things may change the way we serve our customers in the future,” he said.

他說:“通過整合高性能住宅、智能技術、屋頂太陽能和微電網，我們能夠理解所有這些因素的相互作用將如何改變我們未來為客戶服務的方式。”