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Smart meter initiatives around the country in recent years have proven the concept. They are cost-effective and maximize energy efficiency, leading many governments to mandate advanced metering. Today a small fraction of U.S. meters are smart, but the segment is expected to grow between 15 percent and 20 percent annually. This section will keep you up-to-date with the fast-evolving technologies that underlie the smart metering phenomenon.
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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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A new report says smart meter deployments are speeding along in most of the world and global spending on meter security is expected to hit $575 million in the next five years. But the report also says many meter makers aren't showing all that much interest in fixing security problems. |
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Itron's OpenWay smart meters got a clean bill of health when an independent consultant verified the accuracy of the company's meters. The Public Utility Commission of Texas asked for the tests after consumer advocates raised questions about the meters collecting bad data leading to higher than expected power bills. |
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The Hawaii Public Utilities Commission denied a request by the state's largest utility to expand a smart meter test program. This latest bump in the Smart Grid road came when regulators determined that ratepayers, who would foot the bill for the expansion, wouldn't see the benefits. |
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With the addition of a seventh Massachusetts municipal electric company to its list of clients, GroundedPower is conducting pilot programs in all electric metering environments, including legacy and AMR and AMI smart meters. |
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Southern California Edison achieved a milestone Monday with the installation of its one millionth smart meter. |
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A week after the Maryland Public Service Commission turned down to Baltimore Gas & Electricâs ambitious Smart Grid initiative, the Oklahoma Corporation Commission gave a thumbs up to Oklahoma Gas & Electricâs $366.4 million smart meter expansion. Both utilitiesâ initiatives were to be funded in part by federal stimulus money. |
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The Maryland Public Service Commissionâs decision to turn down Baltimore Gas & Electricâs stimulus-funded smart meter proposal sent shockwaves through the industry. In this guest commentary, eMeter Chief Regulatory Officer Chris King offers perspective on the PSC decision â and suggestions for utilities hoping to avoid a similar fate. |
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GridWise Alliance President Katherine Hamilton reacts to the Maryland Public Service Commission's decision to turn down Baltimore GAs & Electric's Smart Grid proposal. |
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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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Itron has been selected to deliver an advanced metering system, including head-end and meter data management software and 100,000 smart meters, for the first phase of an ambitious Smart Grid project by Iberdrola, Spain's number one energy group. The initiative could grow to 10 million meters countrywide. |
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Many Smart Grid experts believe too many stimulus dollars went to smart meters. They argue it would have been smarter to spend more on distribution automation and system efficiencies. Here's an opposing viewpoint from longtime industry participant Sunil Sharan. |
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As a pioneer in the utility industry, JEA embarked in 2004 on a search for ways to extend the value of its smart metering investments beyond automated meter reading. As this eMeter case study details, JEA management settled on a requirements list that extended from customer care to enhancing outage management capabilities. |
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The country's sixth largest electricity transmission and distribution utility, Dallas-based Oncor, has signed on with an IBM-led coalition dedicated to promote the adoption of Smart Grids. The Texas utility celebrated a major milestone last week: installation of its one millionth smart meter. |
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A survey of British citizens claims that, even if they had a smart meter, seven out of 10 would ignore the potentially money-saving information the meters can provide. |
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Landis+Gyr has signed a contract with RSA to boost security in its GridstreamTM Smart Grid network. The move provides strong data protection to help minimize the effects of possible attacks on the Smart Grid infrastructure. |
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Theyâre calling it the largest residential smart meter deployment using public wireless networks so far in the U.S. Texas-New Mexico Power will use SmartSynchâs metering solution and AT&Tâs public wireless network when it rolls out 231,000 units over the next five years. |
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Metering industry leaders are working to ensure interoperability between smart meters, smart home applications and the Smart Grid overall. Current members of the new IDIS Association include Itron, Landis+Gyr and Iskraemeco. |
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Salt River Project, the third largest public power utility in the U.S., will double its deployment of Elster smart meters, expanding its total rollout to one million. A $56.9 million matching DOE Smart Grid Investment Grant will help pay for the project. |
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The Energy Department filed two requests for information on implementing the National Broadband Plan today, one asking for information on utility communications requirements and another concerning utility customers' access to electronic meter data, Smart Grid privacy and data collection policies, and the consumer role in balancing the benefits of data access and privacy. |
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Pacific Gas & Electric apologized to customers this week for lousy customer service related to its smart meter rollouts. The apology came with a 700-page report on the smart meter installations and the problems the utility is working to correct. Meanwhile, weâve put EPRIâs just-released white paper titled âAccuracy of Digital Electricity Metersâ on the top of our recommended reading list. |
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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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RF Mesh systems have been the choice for the vast majority of Smart Grid pilots and deployments in the U.S. But Jesse Berst is predicting that a small pilot project in Texas could have broad consequences across the industry â making cellular a viable option for municipals and smaller utilities. Click inside for his analysis (and your chance to weigh in on where Smart Grid communications is heading). |
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A Milan company just announced a âsystem on chipâ 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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Smart Grid solutions provider CURRENT Group has been selected by Iberdrola, a leading wind power producer and the world's fourth largest utility, to provide what it says is the first and largest deployment of smart metering technologies that will incorporate end-to-end interoperability using the open PRIME metering standard. |
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