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The Smart Grid initiative brings together leaders and innovators from a number of established and emerging industries, as well as system integrators and consultants who have been involved in some of the early Smart Grid projects. Who are they? Scroll down to find out.


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All Smart Grid Score Cards
A regular feature of Smart Grid News is the SGN Tech Take. In this series of articles, power engineer and architect Erich Gunther evaluates actual products and services against the SGN Smart Grid Scorecard.

Schneider Electric and Verisae Collaborate on New Demand Response Solution
Schneider Electric and Verisae are working together to bring a comprehensive demand response product to commercial and industrial customers.

Cisco's Smart Grid Stranglehold Intensifies with Major New Partnership
Today Smart Grid powerhouses Cisco and Itron announced a strategic alliance to deliver a definitive IP-based communications platform. What does it mean for the rest of us? Jesse Berst offers some insight.

A New (and Less Expensive) Way to Launch Smart Grid Projects
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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.

ATMs for Electricity – And How They Could Endanger Unsuspecting Utilities
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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.

GE Smart Grid Acquisition Powers Up its Portfolio
GE has acquired SNC-Lavalin's Energy Control Systems, which improves the efficiency and reliability of power delivery. The Energy Control Systems software provides continuous monitoring and analysis and helps pinpoint possible power problems before they materialize.

IBM Smart Grid Strategy: The Grid’s Only ‘Super Integrator?’
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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).

Smart Grid Financials: A New Lithium ETF and Portfolio ‘Energizing’
What’s touted as the world’s first Lithium ETF was launched by New York-based Global X Funds. Meanwhile, a man described as a ‘true guru’ of the global energy sector offers ideas on energizing a portfolio.

Smart Grid into the Home: The Battle Begins
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With increasing frequency we’re seeing reports of new players or new partnerships in the home energy management space. Everyone wants in on the action. But Pike Research senior analyst Bob Gohn poses the billion-dollar question: Who will entice pesky consumers into “behavior change” – and be able to make money doing it? Don’t miss his analysis.

Microsoft's Billion-Dollar Missed Smart Grid Opportunity
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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.

Cisco Smart Grid Strategy: The Grid’s First Operating System
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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.

GE’s Smart Grid Strategy: Cool Little Pieces, No Glue
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.

Acquisition, Investment and a Successful IPO: Are Things Looking Up for the Smart Grid?
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.

GE Ecomagination Getting a $10 Billion Infusion for Green R&D
General Electric expects to spend $10 billion within the next five years on Ecomagination, the green research and development program it started in 2005. The program has included development of smart appliances, battery technologies, compact fluorescent lighting, wind turbine manufacturing and more.

Itron Tapped by Spain's Iberdrola for Ambitious Advanced Smart Metering Project
Itron has been selected to deliver an advanced metering system, including head-end and meter data management software and 100,000 smart meters, for the first phase of an ambitious Smart Grid project by Iberdrola, Spain's number one energy group. The initiative could grow to 10 million meters countrywide.

What Customers Say Vs. What Customers Do
No one company has the full picture when it comes to home energy management. When it comes to the customer engagement and participation piece, however, OPOWER has the mind share lead, and the biggest number of on-the-ground installations, as this guest article by Sheldon Reiffenstein explains.

Oncor Joins IBM's Smart Grid Coalition and Hits Milestone in Smart Meters
The country's sixth largest electricity transmission and distribution utility, Dallas-based Oncor, has signed on with an IBM-led coalition dedicated to promote the adoption of Smart Grids. The Texas utility celebrated a major milestone last week: installation of its one millionth smart meter.

Feds and Military Tap Ice Energy and SAIC for Distributed Energy Storage
Ice Energy, a provider of Smart Grid advanced energy storage solutions for the utility industry, has partnered with SAIC to deliver the company's Ice Bear distributed energy storage system to federal government agencies and the military.

T&D Done Deal: Alstom and Schneider Electric Divvy Up Areva
The Areva group closed the sale of its transmission and distribution businesses to Alstom and Schneider Electric. Alstom will take over the transmission business and Schneider will take on distribution.

Verizon Partners Up to Battle for Market Share in Smart Grid Communications
Verizon Wireless is getting more aggressive in its mission to corner a bigger share of the Smart Grid communications market, and betting it will get a longer reach from its partnership with other technology providers.

MDM Pile-On: Vendors See Huge Opportunities in All that Data
First came smart meters … and hot on their heels a meter data management market that is forecast to grow by almost 30% in the next few years, according to IDC Energy Insights. The good news for utilities is there are a dizzying number of vendors offering MDM solutions. We’ve highlighted 10 to get you started.

Cisco Smart Grid: Company Unveils First of its "Connected Grid" Solutions
Cisco announced the first components of its Connected Grid array of Smart Grid communications solutions designed to help utilities more efficiently and reliably get electricity from power plants to homes and businesses.

Stepping Stone? Siemens Snags Its Single Largest U.S. Order for Onshore Wind Turbines
Siemens Energy will supply about 150 wind turbines to Puget Sound Energy, Washington's oldest local energy utility. It represents Siemens' largest onshore wind turbine order to date in the U.S.

ABB and the Ventyx Acquisition – Why Now, What Next?
When ABB announced its acquisition of Ventyx last week, we warned you to watch for even more announcements like it. Long-time industry watcher Chuck Newton dropped us a note to say he agrees. In fact, he believes the purchase will give ABB “a significant market position” in the burgeoning enterprise utility Smart grid software market... beyond that of competitors Areva, GE and Siemens. We thought his comments were so insightful, we asked him to share them here on SGN.

Who’s Got the Clout? The Smart Grid’s Most Powerful Men
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When it comes to influencing the future of the Smart Grid, who really wields the power? Jesse Berst offers some thoughts on the type of individuals in the running, but we're asking for your help on this one. Click inside where we've got a Quick Poll and a comment form that's awaiting your nominations for the Smart Grid's most powerful men.

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