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Many countries around the globe are working feverishly to modernize their electric grids. Sharing knowledge helps everyone, and the news and resources in this section can help do that.
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Scotland has been extremely aggressive in its initiatives to develop a thoroughly optimized smart grid and as much renewable energy as possible. Now the country has its own world-class research center that will tackle transmission line loss and other challenging issues.
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Europe has been aggressively developing renewable energy resources, but a study by Siemens and a German technical university found that poor choices have been made in siting renewable energy projects. The result? A tremendous waste of money. Read the story for details on what Siemens recommends to remedy the problem.
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It looks like the buzz over the UK's plans for a massive smart meter rollout has fizzled a bit with the news that deployment has been delayed by at least a year. Ovum analyst Stuart Ravens offers a critical assessment of what went wrong.
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The Daily Mail is using the UK's pending smart meter rollout as the excuse to run a "Big Brother" scare story about sinister technology that turns off refrigerators and freezers without their owner's consent. But the rabble rousers are adding another angle that may be even more nefarious.
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Silver Spring and Sensus are battling for communications supremacy in the UK's massive smart meter rollout. At stake is a piece of Britain's $18.5 billion initiative, which calls for deploying 53 million smart meters by 2019.
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Germany is expected to launch an energy storage subsidy next month. A lot of people will be watching to see if the country can achieve the same level of success with its storage subsidy as it did with its solar feed-in tariffs.
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Energias de Portugal has announced that renewable energy supplied 70% of total consumption in Q1 2013. Even with favorable weather and unexpectedly low demand, that's quite a benchmark. But there's another factor that gives Portugal an advantage.
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A review of the global energy storage market by GBI Research forecasts steady growth through 2020, which is probably driven by continuing smart grid infrastructure initiatives, increasing energy demand, more government support and a steady stream of technological advances.
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If you remember the "Where's Waldo?" series, this week's smart grid wins are popping up here, there and everywhere just like the bespectacled Waldo did. Examples: Ventyx in Germany, Hill International in Afghanistan, ABB in China and Honeywell in Kuwait. And that's just getting started; click to take the full tour.
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While Central and Eastern Europe are often overlooked by Western Europe, the region encompasses attractive candidates for smart grid investment. Smart meter spending there is expected to reach a cumulative $10.3 billion by 2023, according to the Northeast Group.
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The UK's smart meter rollout is highly unusual. And at first glance, Trilliant's announcement today is about future prepay capabilities as part of that rollout. But dig deeper and you'll see that it holds hints about where the UK market is going next. It may even portend a radically different approach to electric power for other regions, including North America.
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Korea has been considered an up and coming power in the smart grid world but with a new government now in place and other changes, concerns have surfaced that the country's ambitious program could be stalled.
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What's the answer to energy poverty in developing nations? An electrical connection alone isn't it, suggests Brian Warshay of Lux Research. Click to see why he says solutions must have a low upfront cost, require little maintenance and employ pay-as-you-go services - with the latter most important.
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More and more people are coming to agree that the regulatory model in the U.S. was well-suited for the 20th Century but is ill-suited to the 21st. Many believe the UK may point the way for other countries to follow, which is why recent developments there bear close watching.
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Central American countries from Guatemala to Panama are about to be connected on the same power grid for the first time. It will be interesting to see if these countries learn from those who've gone before and leapfrog themselves into a modern grid.
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