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Implementation of the Smart Grid requires sophisticated business and financial planning. This section highlights tools and case studies from the pioneers already leading the way.
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Chicago's ComEd has launched what it calls its "ComEd Smart Grid Innovation Corridor," a combination of five Smart Grid pilot projects that will cover 10 of the city's communities and will build on smart meters currently installed in 130,000 households. |
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As the Smart Grid unfolds, utilities face pressing challenges they've never seen before. How do you grapple with technologies, programs and services that are brand new — and get it right the first time? Click inside for a new service to help utilities prepare for Smart Grid deployments, and to do it with less time and money. |
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As locales around the world implement smart grids, the next wave will be smart cities. In a special post for Smart Grid News, Forrester researcher Usman Sindhu and analyst Doug Washburn explain the smart city initiative and why utility CIOs and CTOs need to be part of the conversation. |
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Security expert Andy Bochman contends in today’s post that the kind of Smart Grid threats he typically writes about – cyber attacks, Stuxnet viruses and the like – aren't the biggest challenge to Smart Grid success. Click inside to learn what worries Andy even more. |
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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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Countering news reports that Xcel Energy’s SmartGridCity project in Boulder, Colorado is on life supports, an Xcel spokesman told Smart Grid News that scenario is “not even close to the truth.” Click for details. |
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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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A new PriceWaterhouseCoopers quarterly report says the increased value and volume of mergers and acquisitions in the second quarter of 2010 provides reason for continued optimism in the utility and energy generation sector. And stimulus funds and Smart Grid deployments play a big role. |
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A joint effort by Ford, Xtreme Power and Detroit Edison to build a solar energy system will provide a window into industrial applications for renewable energy, Smart Grid technologies and energy storage. |
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If the Center for Energy Workforce Development has it right, 40% to 60% of the energy utility workforce could be eligible to retire in 2012. And according to the NREL, one of the leading barriers to renewable energy and energy-efficiency growth today is a shortage of training and skills. Put it all together and it’s a remarkably grim forecast for an industry undergoing a massive and demanding transformation. That’s why the DOE’s Applied Energy Office is asking for your help. It has posted this RFI seeking input from stakeholders on scope and priorities for its education and workforce development activities. There’s no money involved; just a chance to do your bit to make the world a cleaner one. |
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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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In a multi-year, international collaboration with utilities at 19 host sites, the Electric Power Research Institute is demonstrating the integration of distributed energy resources in large-scale Smart Grid demonstration projects. Now two years into the initiative, EPRI has just released this fascinating, graphical two-year project update with specifics on progress at host sites. Added bonus: The report includes a “toolbox” of resources to help others with Smart Grid deployments now and in the future. |
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After updating you on Cisco and GE Smart Grid strategies in recent posts, today Jesse Berst zooms in on IBM, which he’s calling the Smart Grid’s first and only super integrator. Do you agree? Click inside for a quick look at Big Blue's far-reaching role in our ecosystem (and a chance to nominate IBM strategies you want to know more about). |
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The Smart Grid tsunami is nearing the shore. Without preparation, you and your company could be victims. With forethought, you could emerge as victors. The key is to get to the high ground… but where’s that going to be? Jesse Berst says we can learn from other industries that have gone through similar upheavals. Click to read insights from telecommunications, transportation and retailing. |
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That innovation platform that Cisco is touting could have been Microsoft’s. There was a time when the software giant was the obvious candidate to create an operating system for the Smart Grid. But Jesse Berst says Microsoft has missed out entirely. Click inside to find out why. |
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Cisco was a big winner in the Internet world and is looking to be equally so in the Smart Grid space. But we count at least five hurdles the networking giant will have to overcome (and you may think of a few we’ve overlooked). So click inside and take a look; there's a Quick Poll too. |
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There’s much to like about what Cisco is doing to connect the dots in the Smart Grid space. But for utilities, Cisco’s vision may pose some real challenges. High cost, hidden lock-ins and cloud computing are on our worry list. But there’s more too. |
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Cisco calls it an innovation platform. But Jesse Berst has taken a look under the hood and he's calling it the Smart Grid’s first operating system. Either way, the important thing is that we are finally starting to see the underpinnings of a real end-to-end platform. Click inside for details on this promising development. |
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Over the next decade utilities will need powerful new capabilities to scale up all sorts of offerings for all sorts of customers in all sorts of service territories using all sorts of rate plans. Some refer to this array of services as “energy happy hours” – and today Jesse Berst introduces two forward-looking companies with plans to host them. |
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In this white paper eMeter CEO Gary Bloom suggests there are lessons to learn from other industries that have survived the same sort of disruptive technologies impacting utilities today. He makes the case that what the Smart Grid needs to pull the technologies and challenges togeher is a robust integration platform that supports on-demand, two-way communications, supported by information processed in real-time. |
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American utilities will need to adopt a new business model if they're going to succeed in a 21st century that demands clean, low-carbon electricity and customer engagement, according to a report prepared for the sustainability advocacy coalition Ceres. |
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As Smart Grid deployments transform today’s electric utilities, consumer advocate Michael Shames says the utilities’ product will evolve from kilowatts to connectivity. They'll be selling convenience, lifestyle, improved service quality and better value. Shames warns that utilities that are too cautious as they move into this new role could see disastrous results. Find out why inside. |
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It's been a busy week so far for Smart Grid wheeling and dealing: INFRAX Systems acquires Trimax Wireless, Tesla's IPO gets raves and Consert nets almost $18 million from heavyweight investors. |
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In this thoughtful commentary by Echelon CTO Bob Dolin we start at the world’s first Smart Grid project in Italy - and then follow a path that takes us past two-way communications and remote meter reading towards Smart Grid 2.0 and the benefits of intelligent energy management. How do we get there? What are the requirements? Dolin offers his point of view inside. |
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This presentation by Echelon CTO Robert Dolin explores the next phase of the Smart Grid where the grid and the devices connected to it become a communicating, intelligent system. It also focuses on the increased efficiencies that result from this Smart Grid 2.0. |
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in Europe the transmitter of the power and the supplier are split now but i think the really democratisation means also that people will become independant and the question is if this already takes ...