This IDC Energy Insights report examines managed service offerings that have relevance to the challenges faced by the North American utility industry. This report is intended to help utilities navigate through the multitude of concepts and offerings that are being presented for utility consideration in today's market.
Investments for smart grid technologies are expected to flourish through 2017. The objective of this study is to validate and forecast the global smart grid market by geographic region and by key technology categories. Technologies discussed include advanced meter infrastructure, demand response, distribution grid management, and high voltage transmission technologies.
The IDC Energy Insights Smart Cities Maturity Model is the next step in the IDC Smart Cities Index, created to rank cities' "smartness" and developed by IDC Energy Insights in collaboration with IDC's local research.
This IDC Energy Insights report is intended to give business and IT decision makers the tools to evaluate a strategy for analytics with a focus on the customer. Major utilities are still at the stage evaluating how, when, where, and whether to deploy analytics.
This IDC Energy Insights Perspective discusses the latest release of IDC Energy Insights' Worldwide Quarterly Photovoltaic Module Tracker. The report highlights some of the key developments in the global solar photovoltaic (PV) industry in 4Q11 and presents our market expectations for 2012.
This IDC Energy Insights report reveals the major findings of a recent cloud computing survey. The survey sought to improve understanding of the nature of current cloud environments, preferences for delivery models (private, public, and hybrid), future plans for cloud deployments, workloads and business processes suitable for cloud, and preferences for specific cloud services.
This IDC Energy Insights case study explores various drivers, challenges, and the future outlook of PEV pilots in Asia, specifically through an understanding of the Singapore EV test bed project. Led by members from Singapore's Energy Market Authority (EMA) and Land Transport Authority (LTA), with Bosch Software Innovations chosen as the charging service provider, the Singapore EV test bed program is more than just testing the technology viability.
This IDC Energy Insights report reveals the major findings of a recent cloud computing survey. The survey sought to better understand the nature of current cloud environments and preferences toward delivery models (private, public, and hybrid), future plans for cloud deployments, which workloads and business processes are suitable for cloud, and preferences regarding cloud service types.
This IDC Energy Insights study provides purchasers of IT with an assessment of the top 10 IT vendors targeting the utility sector in Central Europe; Czech Republic, Hungary, Poland, Slovakia, and Romania.
This report provides an overview of the energy sector in Israel and describes the efforts of IEC to introduce smart technologies into the Israeli electricity grid and support technology innovation as an engine for economic growth.
This IDC Energy Insights report provides analysis of the home energy management (HEM) technology stack based on our interviews with utility decision makers including chief information officers (CIOs) and solution providers. Many utilities are somewhere on the continuum of piloting programs such as demand response, load control, energy efficiency, and customer education; all of them could involve home energy management.
The creation of a flexible, efficient, digitized, dependable and resilient power grid may well be the best route to increasing energy efficiency and security, as well as boosting the potential of renewable and distributed power sources, according to this report available from Research and Markets.
Electric power system delivery has often been cited as the greatest and most complex mechanism ever built. The smart grid is expected to bring dramatic improvements in everything from general network management to demand response and other demand-side initiatives, according to this report available through Research and Markets. Ultimately, it will help the supply side as new technologies are implemented that create efficiencies for utilities.
This IDC Energy Insights report provides smart building solution end users with guidance on evaluating the current energy management capabilities of their facilities and a framework for developing a strategic investment plan to meet their particular business goals. The Smart Buildings Maturity Model defines the ecosystem of innovative energy management solutions available to end users.
This IDC Energy Insights report provides vendors with guidance on evaluating market opportunity and engaging new customers. The Smart Buildings Maturity Model defines the ecosystem of commercial and industrial building energy management solutions and the range of technology sophistication.
This IDC Energy Insights Perspective provides a snapshot of where the solar industry is today with respect to issues related to the industry's rapid growth in North America creating localized areas with a high penetration of solar photovoltaic (PV) installations. The electric grid was designed to carry electricity from centralized power plants to distributed loads, and the introduction of distributed, intermittent, and unpredictable generation sources introduces new challenges for utilities.
This IDC Energy Insights Perspective presents a ranking of the top 25 intelligent utilities in the United States in 2011. This is the third annual UtiliQ ranking of U.S. electric utilities — a list of the top 25 intelligent utilities based on a detailed analysis by IDC Energy Insights and Intelligent Utility magazine. The UtiliQ analysis provides utilities a way to benchmark progress against a set of metrics that are consistent but also provides room to accommodate changes in this dynamic industry.
This IDC Energy Insights Perspective discusses recent market developments showing how cellular supports smart grid. Until recently, commercial cellular solutions played a minor role in North America (NA) smart grid deployments. However, utilities have begun to turn toward commercial cellular as another means to ensure data delivery, security, and accessibility for utility applications. The impact is that cellular is now part of any serious dialogue with regard to communication network strategies to support smart grid.
This IDC Energy Insights Perspective provides a quick one-stop-shopping overview on the EMEA utilities industry in the fourth quarter of 2011, covering: M&A,international agreements, company reorganizations, and business developments, New financing deals, Major plant and infrastructure investments (excluding renewable energy, Clean coal initiatives, smart metering and smart grid initiatives, ICT ecosystem major acquisitions and agreements, and major ICT contracts awarded
This IDC Energy Insights study presents IDC Energy Insights' top 10 predictions for the utility industry in Central and Eastern Europe (CEE) in 2012. The utility industry in Central and Eastern Europe will probably not be able to avoid certain consequences of the economic slowdown. Utility companies will be more selective in their IT investments, with the green light given to initiatives that enable business innovation and/or provide competitive advantages.
In 2007, Middelfart municipality began a project to renew and improve its municipal building stock to reduce CO2 emissions and energy consumption. Following in its footsteps, Høje-Taastrup municipality began a similar process in 2008. Due to operating budget constraints and a lack of internal skills and knowledge to carry out the extensive programs, both municipalities selected an EPC/ESCO model approach, partnering with Schneider Electric.
This IDC Energy Insights Perspective analyzes the EMEA clean energy sources sector and outlines major merger and acquisition (M&A) activities, clean energy business unit reorganizations, new construction projects initiated by operators, and contracts signed in 4Q11. A separate section at the end of the Perspective explores recent developments in the nuclear sector.
This IDC Energy Insights study highlights the top 10 predictions for the Asia/Pacific Utility Industry in 2012. In 2011, the region was still recovering from the downturn that plagued the world in 2009. However, the state of utility industry in Asia is far from ideal, under the twin pressures of the need to improve EE as well as to create sustainable business models.
This IDC Energy Insights Perspective is the fourth and final report of a series dedicated to the results of the annual IDC Energy Insights Survey covering France, Germany, Italy, Spain, and the U.K. Analysis is focused on the utilities industry and on 124 interviews carried out between April and July 2011.
This report presents IDC Energy Insights' top 10 predictions for the European, Middle Eastern, and African utility industry in 2012. The findings of this report were also presented as part of a Web conference on December 15, 2011.
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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