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A settlement reached Friday could clear the way for Xcel Energy to bill customers $44.5 million for its SmartGridCity project, but the issue is scheduled for hearings this week in front of the Colorado PUC. |
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Xcel Energy's pioneering SmartGridCity pilot program will not be duplicated or expanded, according to Xcel CEO David Eves. And the company is losing support for its bid to recover project costs. |
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Baltimore Gas & Electric will continue with its $835 million smart meter deployment, the utility announced Monday, despite Maryland regulators' rejection of its proposal to have most of the project's initial costs paid for with upfront consumer surcharges. |
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The Maryland Public Service Commission gave approval to a revised Smart Grid proposal from Baltimore Gas & Electric that is supported by $200 million in Recovery Act money. But the approval came with conditions. |
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Congress this week took a second swipe at DOE's renewable energy loan guarantee program to the tune of $1.5 billion to help out teachers and medical and social services. Obviously, that's good news for teachers. But bad news for the renewable energy industry. |
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With less than two months until the deadline to obligate funds under the Recovery Act, an analysis from the DOE Inspector General raises concern about the Energy Department’s ability to meet the deadline with some $3.4 billion in limbo. Click inside for details. |
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Feed-in tariff (FIT) programs in Europe have resulted in dramatic growth in renewable energy over the past decade. In fact, an exhaustive new report from the National Research Energy Laboratory (NREL) says FITs accounted for the deployment of 55,000 MW of wind power and 15,000 MW of solar PV in the EU between 2000 and 2009. In comparison, the U.S. had 25,000 MW of wind power at the end of 2009 and 1,250 MW of solar PV. This 144-page NREL report is an impressive piece of work designed to help U.S. policymakers understand FIT design alternatives and best practices worldwide. |
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Arizona regulators adopted rules that would require electric utilities to cut power sales 22% by 2020 in an aggressive move to save energy. And just so you know how well it's going over: The state's largest utility supports it; at least two others think the goal is unrealistic. What do YOU think? We’ve got a poll inside. |
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Once the industry's poster child, Xcel Energy's grand SmartGridCity experiment in Boulder, Colorado is suddenly under attack. Documents piling up before the state's PUC reveal a he-said, she-said tale of cost overruns, unmet promises, departing executives and a belated request for ratepayers to foot the bill. Jesse Berst says the industry better get prepared for damage control. |
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Itron's OpenWay smart meters got a clean bill of health when an independent consultant verified the accuracy of the company's meters. The Public Utility Commission of Texas asked for the tests after consumer advocates raised questions about the meters collecting bad data leading to higher than expected power bills. |
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The Hawaii Public Utilities Commission denied a request by the state's largest utility to expand a smart meter test program. This latest bump in the Smart Grid road came when regulators determined that ratepayers, who would foot the bill for the expansion, wouldn't see the benefits. |
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As we march into the second half of 2010, progress on the Smart Grid front is a decidedly mixed bag. Some wins? Yes. Setbacks? Sure. Uncertainty? Oh yeah. So how does it all shake out? That’s where you come in. Click inside and participate in our H2 Smart Grid Gut Check. |
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California solar industry associations have called for the implementation of feed-in tariffs to help speed growth in solar and other renewables. The consensus from the associations is that feed-in tariff policies for U.S. renewables are long overdue. |
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Three U.S. Senators introduced legislation this week to offer tax credits as incentives for the development of energy storage technologies that would make renewable energy sources more efficient, reliable and affordable. |
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Adoption of Smart Grid technologies could put the brakes on offshore oil exploration that led to the BP Gulf Coast oil spill, the worst in U.S. history. At least that’s the conclusion reached in The Environmental Magazine. |
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Three weeks after the Maryland Public Service Commission turned down Baltimore Gas & Electric's ambitious Smart Grid plan, the utility has submitted an amended proposal and is seeking a quick decision to avoid losing stimulus money. |
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While cyber security is a hot issue in Smart Grid circles, a U.S. Government Accountability Office study found that critical elements of a coordinated security R&D effort are missing. The report says the cyber security initiative needs a national R&D agenda and more coordination and leadership of R&D activities. |
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Representatives from IEEE, NIST and other organizations gave a House subcommittee a progress report on interoperability and cyber security standards development. John McDonald, IEEE Fellow and director of technical and policy development for GE's digital energy business, told the legislators that "tremendous progress” has been made. |
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A week after the Maryland Public Service Commission turned down to Baltimore Gas & Electric’s ambitious Smart Grid initiative, the Oklahoma Corporation Commission gave a thumbs up to Oklahoma Gas & Electric’s $366.4 million smart meter expansion. Both utilities’ initiatives were to be funded in part by federal stimulus money. |
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Federal officials were briefed today on the results of the PowerCents DC Program, a pilot project considered the first in the electric utility industry to test an integrated Smart Grid combination of dynamic pricing, multi-faceted consumer energy information feedback and smart appliance control. |
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In rejecting California’s Proposition 16, backed by Pacific Gas & Electric, voters demonstrated that consumer dissatisfaction with high energy costs wins out over the desire for subsidized Smart Grid technology. At least that’s the take from Lux research associate Matthew Feinstein. He’s got more on the Prop 16 outcome, including what it means for smart meter companies, inside. |
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The Department of the Interior and the Department of Energy today announced a new Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) that will strengthen the working relationship between the two agencies on the future development of commercial renewable offshore energy projects on the U.S. Outer Continental Shelf (OCS). |
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Is the Maryland PSC’s ruling against Baltimore Gas & Electric a major setback for smart metering or merely a pothole along the way? We’ve rounded up some differing opinions on what the ruling means. |
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The Maryland Public Service Commission’s decision to turn down Baltimore Gas & Electric’s stimulus-funded smart meter proposal sent shockwaves through the industry. In this guest commentary, eMeter Chief Regulatory Officer Chris King offers perspective on the PSC decision – and suggestions for utilities hoping to avoid a similar fate. |
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GridWise Alliance President Katherine Hamilton reacts to the Maryland Public Service Commission's decision to turn down Baltimore GAs & Electric's Smart Grid proposal. |
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I work for a monopolistic electricity utility company in Suriname (South-America) and I am writing an emperical (MBA) thesis on managing technology and innovation (like Smart grid) for small power systems in Suriname. Can you give me information on this subject. Any help would be appriciated. Thank you. ...