Photo Gallery Building a Smart Grid
The electricity industry is spending billions on building new, transnational power lines to harness electricity from renewable energy sources. The intelligent grid is designed to make distribution more reliable and efficient, but are consumers playing along?
The illuminated skyline of Berlin. The increased use of renewable energy is upsetting the delicate balance between supply and demand in Germany's electricity grid.
Foto: FABRIZIO BENSCH/ REUTERS
The Amprion "world view" screen at Brauweiler, near Cologne. Engineers here work to make sure that there 27 milion energy consumers do not suffer any power cuts.
Foto: Amprion
Smart meters are helping consumers to work out exactly how much energy they are consuming.
Foto: Yello Strom
The Eggberg reservoir which supplies water for the Schluchsee power plant.
Foto: Schluchseewerk AG
The Schluchsee pumped storage hydroelectric power plant.
Foto: Schluchseewerk AG
The smart grid of the future.
Foto: DER SPIEGEL
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