CURRENT smart grid solutions for improving grid reliability and efficiency can be found in high-profile smart grid projects around the globe, from Xcel Energy's SmartGridCity project in Boulder, Colorado to European Union-sponsored projects in partnership with Iberdrola. CURRENT smart grid technologies – intelligent sensors and analytic software, for instance – help utilities reduce unplanned outages and overall load requirements.
A private company headquartered outside of Washington, D.C., CURRENT's smart grid contributions have been recognized with several prestigious awards, including from the World Economic Forum.
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Utilities facing the challenges of an aging/retiring workforce and an aging infrastructure can find themselves dealing with problematic feeders that require too much time and attention. With launch of its Intelligent Distribution Sensor product line, CURRENT is offering a solution - and Pepco is taking them up on it with a rollout planned for its Washington, D.C. service area.
CURRENT has had a rough time of it in the U.S., but is making inroads in Europe. The company has been selected by Spain's Iberdrola to provide advanced metering, transformer supervision and network communications there this year.
With a $13 million funding round and a new CEO at the helm, CURRENT says it will accelerate product development and continue to expand its smart grid solutions into European and Asia Pacific markets where it has been making inroads.
Some very cool smart grid technology has a new lease on life with S&C Electric's just-announced acquisition of grid optimization tools from the Current Group. SGN Chief Analyst Jesse Berst got the inside scoop from the company's strategy VP. Click inside to learn why he thinks this could be a game-changer for S&C.
British telecommunications company Cable&Wireless Worldwide and CURRENT Group will combine their expertise to provide integrated smart metering and smart grid solutions to help ensure that the goals of the British government's Low Carbon Economy and National Smart Metering programs are met.
AT&T and Elster have agreed to work together to offer end-to-end wireless communications solutions for electric utilities. AT&T sees the move as a way to expand its market.
Jesse Berst is just back from a speaking engagement in Europe, where he also had the opportunity to spend time with some major players in the smart grid space over there. He came away with the impression that Europe's approach to smart grid is often superior to ours in at least three ways.
The Smart Grid RoadShow blew into Portland, Oregon with a who's who of presenters – BPA chief Stephen Wright, CURRENT Group CEO Tom Casey, and FERC Chairman Jon Wellinghoff, among others. Click inside for their insights (and even a few bombshells) regarding business cases, smart grid hype, consumer engagement and more.
Weather products and services provider WeatherBug® has announced a smart grid solution to monitor and forecast weather based on "hyper-local weather intelligence." The suite of applications provide utilities with information to help them manage outages, load balancing, demand response and more.
LumaSense Technologies, a temperature and gas sensing solutions provider, has acquired fiber optic sensing technology from Opsens, Inc. The acquisition gives LumaSense a broader range of fiber optic technology to help utilities better manage transformer reliability.
AT&T has agreed to offer Petra Solar's interactive solar electric systems which incorporate solar power generation and Smart Grid technology in one system. The offering will allow utilities to meet Renewable Portfolio Standards while investing in Smart Grid technologies.
Landis+Gyr and CURRENT’s European entity CURRENT Technologies International GmbH , have signed an agreement to deliver smart, open and interoperable energy management solutions. The agreement is a key ingredient in addressing the challenge to come in implementing smart grid and smart metering technologies in Spain and Portugal.
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.
AT&T and CURRENT Group have joined forces to provide utilities with Smart Grid solutions designed to improve and enhance grid performance and asset management.
AT&T today announced it is extending its reach with smart grid solutions for utilities throughout the United States with a new agreement with CURRENT Group, a leading provider of distribution Smart Grid solutions.
Smart Grid solutions provider CURRENT Group has been selected by Iberdrola, a leading wind power producer and the world's fourth largest utility, to provide what it says is the first and largest deployment of smart metering technologies that will incorporate end-to-end interoperability using the open PRIME metering standard.
CURRENT Group, LLC, a leading provider of Smart Grid solutions, announced today that it has been selected by Iberdrola, one of the four largest utilities in the world, to provide smart metering communications, advanced sensing and network management solutions as part of their first phase deployment of Smart Grid solutions in Castellon, Spain.
CURRENT Group has been selected by NorthWestern Energy to deliver CURRENT’s Distribution System Optimization products and services that will enable NorthWestern Energy to reduce technical losses, optimize feeder voltage profiles and reduce system load through advanced voltage optimization automation.
RuggedCom Inc. (“RuggedCom”) (TSX:RCM), a leading provider of rugged communications networking solutions designed for mission-critical applications in harsh environments, and CURRENT Group, LLC, a provider of innovative and industry-leading intelligent and optimized solutions to monitor and manage the distribution grid, announced today that they will collaborate to jointly deliver integrated smart grid infrastructure and advanced applications for distribution automation. The integrated solution will enable electric utilities to improve the reliability and efficiency of the distribution grid, speed integration of renewable and distributed energy resources, and reduce technical losses and total load of their distribution system in a timely, more secure and more cost-effective manner.
CURRENT Group, Beckwith Electric and Blue Grass Energy announced today that Blue Grass Energy has selected Smart Grid technology partners CURRENT and Beckwith Electric to demonstrate integrated Volt/VAR Control and Dynamic Voltage Optimization solutions that will enable Blue Grass Energy to reduce technical losses, voltage profiles and reduce system load through advanced voltage optimization automation.
Verizon and the CURRENT Group team up to provide utilities with a way to more quickly implement the capabilities of the Smart Grid by coupling CURRENT's intelligent distributed sensing with an IP-based solution from communications giant Verizon. We told you cellular is coming on strong.
Electric utilities can more quickly adopt smart grid capabilities by combining intelligent distributed sensing from CURRENT Group with an Internet Protocol-based solution from Verizon. Under a new agreement, the two companies are enabling real-time power consumption and analysis communications between electric companies and sensors deployed on their networks.
CURRENT Group and Beckwith Electric announced today that they have entered into an agreement to integrate CURRENT's Volt/VAR Control and Dynamic Voltage Optimization solutions with Beckwith Electric's Load Tap Changer, Voltage Regulator and Capacitor Controls, enabling electric utilities to reduce technical losses, optimize feeder voltage profiles during normal operating conditions, and reduce load demand through voltage optimization.
In working with CURRENT Group beginning in September 2008, Xcel Energy has deployed a two-way centralized Volt/VAR Control solution in Boulder as part of the SmartGridCity project. With numerous charts and technical detail, this white paper provides a comprehensive look at the functionality and benefits of an more advanced, integrated, and centralized voltage and VAR control solution.
It was announced today that the CURRENT® System Optimization solution suite has been named by VentureBeat as one of the Top 10 innovations driving the future of the Smart Grid. The award recognizes technologies that help achieve the primary goals of a Smart Grid: de-carbonize the grid; facilitate data transmission and the monitoring of power use, and drive increased efficiency and conservation of power.
Three new demonstration projects caught our attention - a smart grid effort in Albuquerque's business district, a rapid recovery transformer study in Texas and a trial involving low voltage current sensor technologies in the UK. They also got us to thinking: At this stage in the smart grid build out, if you could design a demonstration project, what would it entail? That's our latest Tuesday Topic; click for the details.
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