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Follow the progress and heed the learnings of the smart grid demonstration projects and pilots highlighted below.
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National Grid plans to add a Sustainability Hub to its smart grid pilot in Worcester, MA to help educate customers and the community about energy efficiency and emerging technologies. National Grid has gone a long way to get and keep customers involved in the project from the very beginning.
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If you want to see who's winning the big smart grid deals, you're in the right place. This week's featured winners inked contracts from Latvia to Malaysia to Alabama and beyond. We've also got a big ABB honor and an ABB acquisition to tell you about - plus a major smart grid milestone in Florida. Click so you don't miss any of it.
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Landis+Gyr is rolling out its new smart grid terminal in a pilot in The Netherlands and GE is joining a project in the UK that will integrate its Durathon energy storage systems. Get details on those wins and more - including the battery company that now lists Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates as an investor.
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A startup out of Oakland, California is selling a device that clamps onto transmission lines to make them smart. Skeptical? The idea has enough merit that Tennessee Valley Authority is piloting it and Southern Company is about to start tests.
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Who knew something called quantum cryptography could play a role in protecting the grid from cyber thugs? A team at Los Alamos National Lab says they've demonstrated the concept successfully. Click for more on that, plus updates on smart grid demos focused on integrating renewables, assessing a transactive control system and bringing smart grid technologies into the real world.
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The nation’s largest smart grid demonstration project has released an annual report that describes its 2012 activities, including installing numerous smart grid technologies and rolling out its distinctive two-way communication signal between electric providers and users.
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China's big utility is testing passive optical networking technology with a nod to capabilities that extend beyond grid reliability. It's one of five intriguing smart grid projects that recently caught our attention.
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National Grid is expanding its comprehensive smart grid pilot program in Worcester, Massachusetts after successfully wrapping up a 5,000 meter early field trial, and has picked what it calls its 'dream team' of 13 companies and services for the next phase of the project.
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Smart grid companies are decking their corporate hallways with yuletide treasures (or more specifically orders for everything from smart meters to regulation services to an HVDC converter station). Click for details on Itron's big win in South Africa, Echelon's pilot in Brazil and eight more reasons why certain smart grid CFOs should be jolly this week.
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| TV station KRQE reports on the unveiling of the $52 million Los Alamos smart grid demonstration project, a collaboration between a Japanese consortium, U.S. companies, a New Mexico utility and a DOE lab.
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With all of the negative consumer stories we hear, it's nice to meet up with a utility that has teamed with its community to create a consensus vision of its smart energy future. Case in point: National Grid and its 15,000 customer pilot in the city of Worcester, Massachusetts. We think you'll be interested in their "listen, test and learn" approach and how it's playing out.
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We've been ranting that utilities need to get their EV act together and start implementing smart charging schemes. Now comes word that Toyota and Duke are doing just that in Indiana - with a pilot that will test the very thing we've been advocating.
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Add the voice of General Motors to those complaining about the shortcomings of the utility industry when it comes to EV charging. Example: We waste time on hundreds of single-system smart charging pilots - and they don't even tackle the really tough problem. Can we solve this one together?
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When Qualcomm's Senior Director of Technology first told us about his company's Halo wireless charging technology, we thought it could be decades before it showed up in real applications. We were wrong.
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With the world's eyes on London as the Olympics kick off, we thought it would be a jolly good time to take a look at the game plan for smart grid in London and beyond. Click for a look at how England is setting the pace toward a smarter, cleaner energy finish line.
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