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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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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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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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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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LumaSense Technologies, a temperature and gas sensing solutions provider, has acquired fiber optic sensing technology from Opsens, Inc. The acquisition gives LumaSense a broader range of fiber optic technology to help utilities better manage transformer reliability. |
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A cooperative approach among New England states in reaching renewable energy goals would allow the states to spread the risk of high-ticket projects and provide other benefits, including higher economies of scale, the CEO of the regional electric grid said this week. |
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The Pacific Northwest Smart Grid Demonstration Project has come one step closer to reality with the Energy Department's authorization to pay half of the $178 million project's cost. The initiative will test Smart Grid technologies with an eye to improving electric grid management. |
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Baltimore Gas & Electric will continue with its $835 million smart meter deployment, the utility announced Monday, despite Maryland regulators' rejection of its proposal to have most of the project's initial costs paid for with upfront consumer surcharges. |
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The Maryland Public Service Commission gave approval to a revised Smart Grid proposal from Baltimore Gas & Electric that is supported by $200 million in Recovery Act money. But the approval came with conditions. |
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Two companies have partnered to provide a cyber security solution for utilities and other segments of the energy sector that allows them to deal with SCADA and industrial control-related security issues without taking critical systems offline. |
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