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The Smart Grid won't happen without leadership from the utility industry. In this section, you'll get a sense of how some of today's forward-thinking utilities are stepping up to the task.
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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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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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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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An EPRI evaluation of portable electronic devices (PEDs) such as the iPod Touch or the Android has found that PED technology will present significant opportunities in the handheld meter/diagnostic device arena and will subsequently become a major component of the Smart Grid sensor market where data needs to be streamed, stored and selectively uploaded from a remote location to a centralized location. Click to download the executive summary. |
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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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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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Southern California Edison achieved a milestone Monday with the installation of its one millionth smart meter. |
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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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Customers who “get” the Smart Grid technologies their utilities are involved in tend to be more satisfied with their electricity providers, according to a study by J.D. Power and Associates. Problem is, not many consumers get it. See which states can claim the highest consumer awareness. |
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Video from the recent ‘Secrets of Customer Adoption’ webinar presented by Smart Grid News and Accenture is now available. Click inside for links. |
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This is the order detailing the Maryland Public Service Commission's denial of Baltimore Gas & Electric's application to deploy a Smart Grid initiative and to establish a surcharge for the recovery of cost. |
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If you missed our "Lessons from the Real World: Secrets of Customer Adoption" Webinar, the PowerPoint presentation is now available for download. |
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This is the first segment of the Secrets of Customer Adoption Webinar presented with Accenture and BC Hydro as part of the Smart Grid News Lessons from the Real World series. Accenture's Greg Guthridge and Bart Schoonbaert discuss the latest consumer research and present key challenges and potential barriers that utility companies face when approaching the residential mass market. |
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This is the second segment of the Secrets of Customer Adoption Webinar presented with Accenture and BC Hydro as part of the Smart Grid News Lessons from the Real World series. Greg Guthridge and Bart Schoonbaert of Accenture drill down on parameters of their recent consumer survey and present the top 5 key findings, going into depth on the consumer paradox and trust factor.
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This is the third segment of the Secrets of Customer Adoption Webinar presented with Accenture and BC Hydro as part of the Smart Grid News Lessons from the Real World series. Greg Guthridge and Bart Schoonbaert of Accenture continue with key findings from their recent global consumer survey with a discussion of emerging barriers and channel diversification.
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This is the fourth segment of the Secrets of Customer Adoption Webinar presented with Accenture and BC Hydro as part of the Smart Grid News Lessons from the Real World series. Greg Guthridge and Bart Schoonbaert of Accenture continue with findings from their recent global consumer survey, keying in on the complexity of consumer preferences. This segment also introduces Jim Nelson from BC Hydro.
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This is the fifth segment of the Secrets of Customer Adoption Webinar presented with Accenture and BC Hydro as part of the Smart Grid News Lessons from the Real World series. Jim Nelson from BC Hydro discusses some of his utility's practices and lessons learned while marketing energy efficiency programs over the last 20 years.
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This is the sixth and final segment of the Secrets of Customer Adoption Webinar presented with Accenture and BC Hydro as part of the Smart Grid News Lessons from the Real World series. Jim Nelson from BC Hydro continues his discussion of best practices and lessons learned marketing energy efficiency programs to consumers, including tips on creating partnerships. To conclude, host Jesse Berst provides a brief overview of the new non-profit Smart Grid Consumer Collaborative. |
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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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GE and Oklahoma Gas & Electric are working together to build a smarter grid in Oklahoma City. For 6,600 participants of our project, technology like the GE SmartMeter is changing the way they use electricity in powerful new ways. |
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The Electric Power Research Institute (EPRI) recently facilitated a smart grid demonstration meeting in Europe that was also jointly coordinated with the First International Workshop for ADDRESS, a group of European distribution companies focused on demand response and distributed energy resources. Both meetings were hosted by French utility Electricité de France (EDF) in Paris (Clamart), France in early June 2010.
The EPRI Smart Grid Demonstration meeting provided the opportunity to focus on international activities that are related to integrating Distributed Energy Resources along with giving an overall EPRI smart grid demonstration project update (available here via download) and path forward through 2013. Presentations included an overview of German smart grid projects, four European scenarios for ADDRESS applications, EDF smart grid activities related to ADDRESS along with sharing of two projects from the United States: 1) AEP – Modeling and Simulation of Community Energy Storage, 2) Southern Company Smart Grid Demonstration Projects. Click the EPRI source link below to access these presentations. |
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Peter Fox-Penner’s new book, “Smart Power: Climate Change, the Smart Grid, and the Future of Electric Utilities,” is a must-read for anyone in the industry – and we’re delighted that Peter graciously agreed to write a short adaptation for SGN readers. Don’t miss it. |
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It doesn’t take a Ph.D in economics to see the utility business model is breaking down as fast as the Smart Grid is building out. And rather than shrugging it off as someone else’s worry, Jesse Berst says anyone collecting a paycheck from a utility ought to be nervous - and pro-active about helping piece together a new model. He explains inside. |
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Nearly a thousand Smart Grid News readers registered for our High Performance in Data Management webinar earlier this year, but at the end of the day there were more questions than we had time to answer. So webinar co-sponsor Accenture came to the rescue – recruiting its data management experts to fill in the blanks. Click inside for all of the questions in our Data Management Q&A series and links to the experts’ responses. |
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With little fanfare, the San Luis Valley has already become the best model for distributed renewable energy generation in the West and maybe even the Nation.
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