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Track the Smart Grid industry's hot-button topics and trends. The articles linked below are some of the most popular ever published on Smart Grid News.
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Once the industry's poster child, Xcel Energy's grand SmartGridCity experiment in Boulder, Colorado is suddenly under attack. Documents piling up before the state's PUC reveal a he-said, she-said tale of cost overruns, unmet promises, departing executives and a belated request for ratepayers to foot the bill. Jesse Berst says the industry better get prepared for damage control. |
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With all the stimulus money (and press) focused on smart meters last year, you might think AMI is the only way to start a Smart Grid initiative. But Jesse Berst points to evidence the tide is turning and that grid applications may prove the quickest way for some utilities to demonstrate benefits. Click for his analysis. |
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The Maryland Public Service Commission has rejected Baltimore Gas & Electric's Smart Grid metering proposal that has ratepayers taking on most of the initial costs of the project. BG&E President Kenneth DeFontes was quoted in the Baltimore Sun as saying he was "dumbfounded" by the decision. |
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It doesn’t take a Ph.D in economics to see the utility business model is breaking down as fast as the Smart Grid is building out. And rather than shrugging it off as someone else’s worry, Jesse Berst says anyone collecting a paycheck from a utility ought to be nervous - and pro-active about helping piece together a new model. He explains inside. |
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The recent announcement that a wireless electric load controller has completed Zigbee Smart Energy certification testing also gives us news on a larger scale: Smart energy device testing is blasting off as a global Smart Grid industry.
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This paper reflects on the transition in residential metering and assesses and identifies several factors that may influence how digital meters are perceived. Three key takeaways from this paper are: 1) In the last decade, the electricity industry has witnessed the close of a 100 year history of electromechanical metering. Electromechanical meter production has halted. 2) The reason for the move to digital meter technology has been functionality. Today with the greater needs for more information so the meter can do more, the industry has moved to this platform. 3) The industry must continue with the ongoing refinement of these solid state products and optimize them as far as reliability and durability. |
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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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A Milan company just announced a “system on chip” platform for the manufacturers of smart meters. Jesse Berst is convinced this development will dramatically alter the metering playing field ... forever. He says the company is claiming its technology could make smart meters 30% to 50% cheaper to build. (And you know what that means!) Click inside for details, and then weigh in on our Quick Poll.
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Consumers are unwilling to let electric utilities remotely control when they can use their appliances as part of an electricity management program without substantial discounts in their power bills. That finding is the result of a global survey by Accenture. |
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Venture-funded startups are swarming the Smart Grid sector like sharks chasing chum. Jesse Berst worries that utilities may fall prey to a new form of vendor lock-in. This one comes from promises, not products, but Jesse is convinced the danger is just as great. Click inside where he explains his thinking, and gives you a chance to decide if he's overreacting with your vote in our Quick Poll. |
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Why the heck would the Gartner Group call Smart Grid security a myth? That’s what security blogger Jack Danahy wanted to know, so he had a conversation with one of the authors of the recent Gartner analysis of the Smart Grid security space. Jack came away with some eye-opening revelations – and you’ll probably find them as interesting as he did. |
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SmartSynch, a leader in the Smart Grid infrastructure space, has launched a coalition to promote interoperability among Smart Grid vendors. |
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In a sector traditionally dominated by men, there are signs of a new day dawning. In the past year at least three women have moved into positions of substantial authority at companies with substantial market strength. They’re making deals and decisions that will impact the Smart Grid for years to come. Click inside and meet the women on our Power List – and nominate others you think we should know about. |
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WiMAX got a shot in the arm (two, actually) this week when GE announced its decision to use WiMAX 4G communications in a Michigan Smart Grid pilot project, and smart meter software company and WiMAX supporter Grid Net announced that Cisco has taken an equity investment in the company. |
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Texas utility Oncor, now in the early stages of a massive smart meter rollout, is catching flak from angry customers who say "We're tired of being overcharged." See what the utility is doing about it. |
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Energy Secretary Steven Chu laid it on the line for a Stanford U. audience: We're not winning the Smart Grid cleantech race. He pushed for a policy that puts a price on carbon and a carbon cap to provide the direction and assurances utilities and lenders need. |
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A new utility industry group has formed to push for fair, transparent regional Smart Grid transmission planning. Can't argue with the mission; we'll take a wait-and-see on how they go about it. |
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A new white paper from the Electric Power Research Institute marks an important milestone in the evolution of the Smart Grid. EPRI describes it as the move from Smart Grid command & control to inform & motivate. Jesse Berst describes it as the move from interactive to transactive. Find out why. |
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Xcel Energy has asked the Colorado PUC for permission to initiate a pilot pricing program for Boulder's SmartGridCity to test customer acceptance of three different electricity pricing options. If approved by the PUC, the pilot would be launched in April of this year. |
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For so many years we’ve worried about technical challenges related to the Smart Grid build-out. But what if it turns out that consumers – the folks next door and down the street – are what ultimately trips it up? Erica Watson-Currie, who is part of a DOE-funded Smart Grid Demonstration project in California, offers an eye-opening perspective on the socio-behavioral aspect of Smart Grid adoption. You may not like what she has to say, but you should read it anyway. |
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The fusion of technologies that is the Smart Grid also represents a mixture of technical cultures. As Pike Research senior analyst Bob Gohn explains, it puts the netheads and the power guys in a culture clash that could influence the Smart Grid’s evolution. His message to industry decision makers? Be aware. |
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The Smart Grid has turned into a chimera (or Frankenstein if you prefer), a conglomeration and integration of many extremely complex and different communications and IT technologies and hardware. CMEA Capital's Maurice Gunderson argues that simple is better and makes the case that turning EVs into day traders by using their batteries as backup for the electric grid adds yet another layer of unnecessary and potentially expensive complexity. |
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What's being ignored in all the hubbub over Smart Grid technology is that we are moving to a new way of buying and selling electricity. If you fast forward 10 or 15 years, it will look much different than it does today. But how will it look? Richard Tabors, author and VP at Charles River Associates, suggests there are four market models that capture the critical elements of what will emerge when the Smart Grid is fully implemented. Which one do you see in your future? |
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A study by Boston Consulting Group (BCG) says affordable electric vehicles (EVs) aren't likely to be glistening on the showroom floor anytime soon, despite the almost rabid enthusiasm car makers are exhibiting about them. |
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Go shopping in the smart meter marketplace and you’ll find a lot of metering vendors with similar stories. Will they all survive? Probably not. So how do you tell the flavors of the month from those with long-term staying power? Jesse Berst digs out his crystal ball and offers five meter makers with the vision and grit to go the distance. |
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I work for a monopolistic electricity utility company in Suriname (South-America) and I am writing an emperical (MBA) thesis on managing technology and innovation (like Smart grid) for small power systems in Suriname. Can you give me information on this subject. Any help would be appriciated. Thank you. ...