A prominent player, Silver Spring Networks smart grid communications technologies are part of the glue that connects the pieces of an intelligent grid. Silver Spring's smart grid solutions include software, hardware and services - or basically a smart grid platform that enables utility networks to deploy a range of applications from demand response and smart metering to distribution automation. Silver Spring's smart grid ambitions were declared in July 2011 when the Silicon Valley startup announced a long-awaited IPO.
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We had an email the other day from someone looking for ways to justify smart grid technology against charges it is still a young and unproven concept. Really? Recent announcements from Silver Spring Networks, PG&E and others certainly tell a different story. Click for details.
The IEEE released a global wireless networking standard that enables interoperable communications between certain smart grid devices, including smart meters and smart home appliances. Those involved - including Elster, Itron, Landis+Gyr, NICT and Silver Spring Networks - are calling the new standard a huge leap forward. Find out why, plus get details on two other developments on the standards front.
Silver Spring Networks has been named by a New Zealand electric utility to deliver its smart grid platform, including advanced metering, distribution automation and deployment that will provide reliable and efficient power for residential and commercial customers.
A new industry group will support the certification and promotion of an interconnect standard for wireless smart grid devices to better communicate from remote locations and with home appliances. Read on to find out more about the group and why they say the standard is important to the smart grid build-out.
Silver Spring Networks will deploy its Smart Energy Platform to almost 4 million homes, businesses and distribution automation devices as part of Commonwealth Edison's 10-year expansion of its smart grid program. There's more to the story than enhanced service reliability and new technologies.
If Silver Spring Networks' just-announced fourth generation networking technology does everything the company says it can, they've created what utilities have always wanted but didn't know to ask for - any transport. With Gen4, Silver Spring has simultaneously addressed the issues with current RF mesh by increasing its speed and capacity and has also integrated cellular. Click for more on this important development that leapfrogs Silver Spring to the head of the innovation pack.
Which companies have the potential to be the 2012 smart grid superstars? That's what our annual Smart Grid Companies to Watch search is all about. Click to see five more reader-nominated companies that made it through the first cut and into the voting round.
Traditional outage management poses at least three challenges for electric utilities -- lack of timely reporting, slow restoration of nested outages and difficulty diagnosing single-customer outages. With a well-designed AMI system, utilities can overcome those issues, according to Chris Montgomery of Silver Spring Networks. Click to learn the six outage-management capabilities Chris says your AMI system should deliver.
In a filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission, Silver Spring Networks said it has raised $24 million and plans to secure another $6 million. While an IPO from the smart grid company was expected last year, economic uncertainties and a weak market haven't made an IPO an attractive proposition.
There's a reason the industry has been watching Silver Spring Networks' pending IPO with great interest. According to SGN Chief Analyst Jesse Berst, a successful IPO would validate the space, quell some of the concerns about a sector slowdown, and improve the prospects of other smart grid companies. But is SSN poised for success? Click inside for an inside view of the company's strengths and challenges.
Silver Spring Networks and Cable&Wireless Worldwide have agreed to participate in the Ecoisland Partnership, the UK's largest energy sustainability smart grid project to date. SGN Chief Analyst Jesse Berst introduces the story with some thoughts on what this partnership might say about SSN's European market strategy.
SGN reported last week that Maui is becoming something of a smart grid test bed with announcement of its second Japan-U.S. smart grid demonstration project in recent months. Now, Silver Spring Networks has been picked for yet another Maui initiative. Get the details on this latest project.
While it was generally expected last year, Silver Spring Networks this week filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission for a proposed initial public offering of its common stock and plans to raise up to $150 million. We've got the numbers and background you'll want to know.
As the global smart metering market moves into its next phase, key players are reworking their strategies to ensure big wins. While it's tough to pick which ones will come out on top, Smart Grid News founder and chief analyst Jesse Berst outlines eight likely contenders' plans for long-term success.
Echelon's Edge Control Node has been certified as compatible with Verizon's 3G network, which means utilities can use the wireless company's network as the backhaul for smart grid systems rather than invest in their own.
There's been a lot of handwringing about where the next generation of smart grid-savvy engineers is going to come from. But IEEE is one organization taking positive steps to address that critical need with a new competition for high school students. Click inside to find out more about the competition and how students – and the smart grid – will gain from it.
This panel discussion features industry leaders discussing ongoing utility efforts to implement in-home energy technologies and customer applications of the smart grid to empower consumers to better manage their energy. Moderated by NV Energy CEO Michael Yackira, the panel includes: OGE Energy Corporation CEO Peter Delaney, Silver Spring Networks CEO Scott Lang, and Colorado Public Utilities Commission Chairman Ron Binz.
Most consumers still don't quite get smart grid technology and how it works, according to a new survey prepared for appliance maker Whirlpool and Habitat for Humanity International. A Whirlpool spokesman said the survey results clearly show a need to seriously step up smart grid education.
Silver Spring Networks has launched one of the first global educational programs designed to help the general public understand the smart grid and its benefits. Two high schools in California and two in Ohio have been selected for the curriculum's rollout.
In his latest vendor spotlight, Jesse Berst walks us through the twists and turns in Silver Spring Networks' smart grid strategy, including its new platform play, realities of the competitive landscape (and yes – that elusive IPO too).
An estimated 150 companies are focused on the residential energy management space today – many of them with ho-hum offerings. But we're starting to see a few exciting concepts emerge from the pack, including one from a company that’s actually starting to deliver on its compelling vision.
Control4 continues its full-court press as a leader in IP-based home control systems. The company will team with Silver Spring Networks to offer a HAN solution that's interoperable with utility smart grid and demand response systems. It also announced its selection by AEP Ohio to pilot customer experiences in home energy management for AEP's smart grid demonsration project.
A Silver Spring Networks executive warns that in pushing a smart meter mandate, the UK runs the risk of falling behind other major economies if it doesn't also focus on getting its smart grid infrastructure in place.
Silver Spring Networks is offering two new software applications to help utilities manage demand response and get customers interactively involved in energy efficiency.
The nation's largest cell phone companies made a show of force this week in a "combine-and-conquer" bid to become the preferred method for smart grid communications. In the U.S., private, purpose-built RF mesh networks have dominated the market, as embodied by the sector’s leader, Silver Spring Networks. Now cell companies are making a united effort to argue that public, cellular networks are a better way to go.
Three new demonstration projects caught our attention - a smart grid effort in Albuquerque's business district, a rapid recovery transformer study in Texas and a trial involving low voltage current sensor technologies in the UK. They also got us to thinking: At this stage in the smart grid build out, if you could design a demonstration project, what would it entail? That's our latest Tuesday Topic; click for the details.
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