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BG&E to Move Ahead With Smart Meter Rollout, Despite Regulator Rejection of Upfront Surcharge
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.

Smart Grid Security Report: Smart Meters One of the Grid's ‘Weakest Links’
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.

Itron Smart Meters Accurate, According to Independent Tests Requested by Texas PUC
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.

Smart Meter Setback: Hawaii PUC Kicks Back Project, Tells Utility to Try It Again
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.

GroundedPower Customer Engagement Pilots Cover the Electric Metering Spectrum
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.

SoCal Edison Milestone: One Million Smart Meters Installed
Southern California Edison achieved a milestone Monday with the installation of its one millionth smart meter.

Smart Grid Initiative Gets OK from Oklahoma Regulators
A week after the Maryland Public Service Commission turned down to Baltimore Gas & Electric’s ambitious Smart Grid initiative, the Oklahoma Corporation Commission gave a thumbs up to Oklahoma Gas & Electric’s $366.4 million smart meter expansion. Both utilities’ initiatives were to be funded in part by federal stimulus money.

BG&E Fallout: What’s the Take-Away for Other Utilities?
The Maryland Public Service Commission’s decision to turn down Baltimore Gas & Electric’s 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 – and suggestions for utilities hoping to avoid a similar fate.

Statement of Katherine Hamilton on Maryland PSC Decision on BG&E
GridWise Alliance President Katherine Hamilton reacts to the Maryland Public Service Commission's decision to turn down Baltimore GAs & Electric's Smart Grid proposal.

Itron Tapped by Spain's Iberdrola for Ambitious Advanced Smart Metering Project
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.

Smart Grid Stimulus: Did DOE Bet Wrong?
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.

Oncor Joins IBM's Smart Grid Coalition and Hits Milestone in Smart Meters
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.

Smart Meters, Who Cares? Survey Says Most British Consumers Don't
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.

Landis+Gyr Picks RSA to Beef Up Smart Grid Security
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.

Texas Utility Plans Mass Residential Smart Meter Rollout Using a Public Wireless Network as the Communications Backbone
They’re calling it the largest residential smart meter deployment using public wireless networks so far in the U.S. Texas-New Mexico Power will use SmartSynch’s metering solution and AT&T’s public wireless network when it rolls out 231,000 units over the next five years.

Metering Leaders Get Together on Interoperability Standards
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.

Salt River Project Will Double its Smart Meter Deployment
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.

DOE Wants YOUR Help on National Broadband Plan, Including Meter Data and Privacy Issues
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.

Smart Meters: An Apology from PG&E – and a New Paper on Meter Accuracy and Customer Perceptions from EPRI
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, we’ve put EPRI’s just-released white paper titled “Accuracy of Digital Electricity Meters” on the top of our recommended reading list.

Smart Grid Technology: Cellular Emerges As Viable Communications Choice
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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 – 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).

Why the Smart Metering Business Just Changed Forever
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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.

Iberdrola and CURRENT Group Push the Envelope on Smart Grid Metering Technologies
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.

Smart Meters by Mandate: 96.3 Million European Households Should Have Them by 2014
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A new research report says over 96 million European households will have smart meters installed by 2014. The intelligent meters are now mandatory in some European countries.

Smart Meters Take Another Beating (or Two or Three)
Not a great week or two for smart meters. Texas utility Oncor is sued over its smart meter program and concedes that some customers were overcharged due to human error, not smart meter error. Meanwhile PG&E got in line for another round of bashing after California regulators picked a company that previously had been on PG&E's payroll to conduct an audit of the utility's meter program. And there’s more: A security firm hired by three utilities reportedly found new vulnerabilities in smart meters.

GE Smart Grid Technologies Take Utility Metering to the Tap in Germany
GE's Smart Grid technologies are helping a German town take an innovative and holistic approach to energy efficiency while reducing its carbon footprint. The town of Erding and other German communities like it are using GE's smart meters to monitor all utility services used, not just electricity.

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Ceal Smith:

Is there a report or synopsis of the Smart Grid development in San Luis Valley that you describe in your note? I am particularly interested in what type of energy storage was found to be most cost-effective as the community developed their solar energy dependence.

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