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Schneider Electric and Verisae are working together to bring a comprehensive demand response product to commercial and industrial customers. |
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PG&E, the San Francisco-based utility that took such a beating for lousy customer service during smart meter rollouts, has convened an advisory panel to evaluate the impact of the company's meter program on customers and to help steer future meter deployments. |
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Chicago's ComEd has launched what it calls its "ComEd Smart Grid Innovation Corridor," a combination of five Smart Grid pilot projects that will cover 10 of the city's communities and will build on smart meters currently installed in 130,000 households. |
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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.
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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. |
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Grid-scale energy storage is expected to take off in the next 10 years as the volume of renewable energy grows, Smart Grid initiatives go online and EVs take to the highways, according to a new report from Pike Research. |
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Texas has quite a lot more wind power than it can use, and a San Francisco-based transmission line developer wants to build a 400-mile transmission line to send some of it to states that aren't so fortunate. |
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Grid-scale storage may not be widespread enough today to defer new transmission, but KEMA storage expert Rick Fioravanti argues it’s an angle worth exploring. As new technologies emerge, it may be closer than you think. |
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As locales around the world implement smart grids, the next wave will be smart cities. In a special post for Smart Grid News, Forrester researcher Usman Sindhu and analyst Doug Washburn explain the smart city initiative and why utility CIOs and CTOs need to be part of the conversation. |
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Security expert Andy Bochman contends in today’s post that the kind of Smart Grid threats he typically writes about – cyber attacks, Stuxnet viruses and the like – aren't the biggest challenge to Smart Grid success. Click inside to learn what worries Andy even more. |
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A settlement reached Friday could clear the way for Xcel Energy to bill customers $44.5 million for its SmartGridCity project, but the issue is scheduled for hearings this week in front of the Colorado PUC. |
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Renewable energy technologies, supported by government stimulus programs and other incentives, have sweetened the global economic outlook, and six clean technologies are expected to experience double digit growth in five years, according to SBI Energy. |
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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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Countering news reports that Xcel Energy’s SmartGridCity project in Boulder, Colorado is on life supports, an Xcel spokesman told Smart Grid News that scenario is “not even close to the truth.” Click for details. |
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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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Xcel Energy's pioneering SmartGridCity pilot program will not be duplicated or expanded, according to Xcel CEO David Eves. And the company is losing support for its bid to recover project costs. |
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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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Global spending on new transmission and distribution equipment and services will reach $107 billion this year, according to a recently released market report. |
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Ocean Renewable Power Company says it has successfully completed a test of a proprietary tidal current energy generator and will use the test results to tweak a commercial version. |
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With broadband in every home or ubiquitous AMI still years off, you've got to wonder how off-the-shelf products made today can possibly provide DR opportunities for all consumers, wherever they may live, without becoming obsolete in the next decade or two. EPRI’s Brian Seal outlines one interesting solution. |
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Does the Department of Energy’s investment in grid storage systems make economic sense? Not if you run the numbers, says Lux Research analyst Steven Minnihan, who has done just that. |
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Today's electric grid is too unreliable and vulnerable to suit the Defense Department. So the DOD and partners are planning a microgrid demonstration project that will incorporate Smart Grid technologies to improve efficiency and security. |
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An affiliate of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce has developed an annual index of energy security risks that should help policymakers, government officials, businesses and others measure the country's energy security. |
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A new PriceWaterhouseCoopers quarterly report says the increased value and volume of mergers and acquisitions in the second quarter of 2010 provides reason for continued optimism in the utility and energy generation sector. And stimulus funds and Smart Grid deployments play a big role. |
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in Europe the transmitter of the power and the supplier are split now but i think the really democratisation means also that people will become independant and the question is if this already takes ...