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The vision of a modernized electric grid didn’t happen overnight. Some of the industry’s brightest minds have been working together tirelessly to develop strategies and champion the cause long before the notion of a Smart Grid made its way into the mainstream.
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The smart grid sector has gained a new association. SmartGridiX intends to create a clearinghouse and forum for developing viable business cases for Smart Grid 2.0. Noble intentions certainly, but do we really need another association?
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IEEE smart grid experts weigh in on what the grid's most important development will be this year. T. Boone Pickens writes about a free market approach that works for energy. Click for links to these articles and two others we think you'll find as interesting as we did.
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Following its recent transition from a public-private partnership to a member-led, industry-based organization, the Smart Grid Interoperability Panel has named its first CEO. Click for details on the experience Patrick Gannon brings to the SGIP.
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The Institute of the Edison Foundation (IEE) has "re-launched" and plans to broaden its work with electric utilities, smart grid technology companies and regulators to advance new technologies for modernizing and optimizing the power grid.
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Rocky Mountain Institute has gathered 30-plus industry stakeholders in a multi-year effort to accelerate transformation of the electric grid. We can't argue with the objective, but do we really need yet another splinter group chipping away at the challenges of a smarter grid?
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A new network of state and regional business groups has formed to promote American innovative energy technologies. While a lot of the right words are being used – electric and plug-in hybrid EVs, energy efficient buildings and renewable energy – SGN Chief Analyst Jesse Berst wants to be sure smart grid is also part of the vocabulary. There's more inside.
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| Even if you aren’t able to attend this week’s GridWise Global Forum, you can catch some of the smart grid leaders in action. Greentech Media is broadcasting key sessions.
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| The newly formed Global Smart Grid Federation plans to link Smart Grid organizations around the world to encourage sharing of ideas and best practices to help accelerate Smart Grid deployments.
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| Metering industry leaders are working to ensure interoperability between smart meters, smart home applications and the Smart Grid overall. Current members of the new IDIS Association include Itron, Landis+Gyr and Iskraemeco.
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| The Zigbee® Alliance and Wi-Fi Alliance® have agreed to work together on wireless home area networks for the Smart Grid, with an initial focus on Zigbee Smart Energy 2.0.
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| A new utility industry group has formed to push for fair, transparent regional Smart Grid transmission planning. Can't argue with the mission; we'll take a wait-and-see on how they go about it.
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| No one wants to invest heavily in the Betamax of Smart Grid architecture and watch while the rest of the industry settles on VHS. But it could happen if you don’t pay attention. Fortunately EPRI program manager and energy industry veteran Matt Wakefield is here with a self-assessment that can help you avoid technology obsolescence and standards pitfalls – before it’s too late.
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| The Commerce Department’s National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) announced today that John D. McDonald, general manager of marketing for GE Energy’s transmission and distribution business and an IEEE Fellow, will serve as chair of the governing board of the Smart Grid Interoperability Panel, the organization launched by NIST in November to sustain and coordinate development of interoperability standards for a modernized electric power grid.
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| The GridWise® Alliance, a Smart Grid advocacy coalition, has sent a letter to state regulatory commissions urging them to continue their support of Recovery Act Smart Grid proposals that were not funded by the Energy Department.
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| In this open letter to state utility commissioners, GridWise Alliance encourages them to move forward with high-quality Smart Grid projects that were not funded by the Recovery Act.
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