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The Smart Grid doesn’t end at the meter. Increasingly, it reaches into the customer premise to talk to building automation systems or even to individual devices. Those customers want new and better ways to monitor, understand and control their consumption. The entire customer side is evolving rapidly – the technology, the regulations, the customer expectations, everything. This section highlights the key trends, issues and applications.
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The transition to electric vehicles is the focus of this special issue which we've loaded up with the latest developments, research, and expert opinion, plus links to smart blogs and other useful web resources. And hey, we've got videos too! |
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Minnesota utility customers using OPOWER's home energy efficiency program saved 2.1% on their electricity bills, according to the first full-year results for the program. |
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Canadian electric vehicle fleet systems integrator Rapid Electric Vehicles is building fully electric Ancillary Power Vehicles for the U.S. Army to use in a multi-faceted microgrid research and development program. The vehicles are designed to reduce the high economic and environmental costs of fossil fuels and to provide fast backup power in emergencies. |
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A group of academic researchers, two national laboratories and participants from the private sector will get up to $122 million from the DOE over the next five years to develop and demonstrate technologies designed to make buildings more energy efficient. |
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No surprise that slow to medium speed EV charging rates won’t do for everyone in our hurry-up world. So we’re hearing more and more about fast vehicle charging technologies. But Pike Research analyst John Gartner paints a muddy picture of what that really means and why we need some clarity ― fast. |
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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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The early days of electric vehicle (EV) brainstorming saw at least three approaches to smart charging. One has emerged as a clear leader. It offers many advantages – but it also poses long-term dangers to utilities. Jesse Berst thinks there’s a solution, but it requires us to think ahead. |
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A year after winning a $39 million stimulus grant, commercial truck giant Navistar's new all-electric medium-duty truck is getting noticed — and sold. |
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A Texas electric utility believes customers really do want smart energy efficiency devices in their homes and businesses and plans to install 100,000 of them by 2012. |
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Home appliance makers and energy efficiency advocates have agreed to vastly improved energy efficiency standards and are calling for new national minimum standards, production tax credits for super-efficient appliances and the inclusion of Smart Grid readiness as a feature of Energy Star-qualified appliances |
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Plug-free EV chargers are on the way, but you'll probably pay a bit more for the convenience than you would with a plug-in charger. |
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It's been a busy week in the EV charging arena: Coulomb Technologies will greatly expand its ChargePoint Network as a result of partnership agreements with Siemens, Leviton and Aker Wade. And Silver Spring Networks and partner ClipperCreek will join an innovative EV pilot program sponsored by Pacific Gas & Electric and the Electric Power Research Institute. |
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An overwhelming 95% of people surveyed in southern California would rather charge their EVs at home, according to a new Electric Power Research Institute report. The finding was one of many in the survey on consumer perceptions of EV ownership. |
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Here’s an interesting partnership: The Building Owners and Managers Association of Chicago has entered into a memorandum of understanding with the Korean Smart Grid Association and two of South Korea's largest energy and technologies to create a virtual generator using Chicago commercial buildings as electric grid resources. The goal is to provide more effective energy management and cost savings. |
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Alternative energy company Quantum Fuel Systems Technologies has won a contract to engineer and implement production tooling for a solar photovoltaic roof module for the Fisker Karma, a high performance plug-in hybrid luxury sedan. |
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The Energy Department's Recovery Act stimulus investments have benefitted the domestic EV industry in a variety of ways: jobs and manufacturing plants and product lines, not to mention charging stations. |
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Renewable energy contributes a tiny fraction of electricity generation resources, but a Nexant executive argues that would change dramatically if more energy efficiency programs were added to the mix.
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GE just made a series of announcements that illustrate both the strengths and the weaknesses of its Smart Grid strategy. Take a look yourself and see if you agree with Jesse Berst that there may be individual strokes of brilliance in GE’s portfolio – but they are hampered by the lack of an end-to-end strategy to connect all the pieces. |
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The Energy Department awarded $92 million to projects that will focus on accelerating green technology innovation, increasing U.S. competitiveness in grid-scale energy storage, power electronics and building efficiency. |
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Security expert Andy Bochman considers the ramp-up to electric vehicles one of the grand challenges of our time. Building a system that is secure – and where all the parts are working right – may not be as complex as a manned mission to Mars. But he sees some similarities. |
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Coulomb Technologies snagged $3.4 million from the California Energy Commission to install its ChargePoint® Networked Charging Stations for EVs in three metro regions: Los Angeles, Sacramento and the San Jose/San Francisco Bay area. |
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Technology expert Erich W. Gunther reviews the TED 5000 home energy monitoring device from The Energy Detective. The TED 5000 uses a hardware-based gateway that receives signals from the voltage and current sensors and makes the data available through a built-in web interface. Click inside to read why it scores only 74 out of 100 on the SGN Smart Grid Scorecard. |
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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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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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Cisco's Connected Grid portfolio just got bigger with the announcement of new home energy management and smart building technologies. |
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