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Council gives nod to opt-out option for 'smart meters'
May 18 - Ashland Daily Tidings, Ore. - The Ashland City Council has approved an opt-out option for residents who don't want radio frequency wave-emitting utility meters at their homes -- and they won't be charged hefty fees for their decision. More...
PG&E Reaches Major Milestone Installing 9 Millionth SmartMeter(TM)
SAN FRANCISCO, May 15, 2012 /PRNewswire - Pacific Gas and Electric Company (PG&E) today announced it achieved a major customer milestone, having recently upgraded more than 9 million meters to SmartMeter(TM) technology. More...
ENAMC Selects Itron to Deploy Largest Advanced Data Collection System in Algeria
Itron - Itron, Inc. (NASDAQ: ITRI) announced today that it signed a significant contract with ENAMC, the National Company of Measurement and Control Instruments, which is located in Algeria. more...
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NISC Selected by Great River Energy to Support its Smart Grid Demonstration Project
National Information Solutions Cooperative (NISC) - National Information Solutions Cooperative, an IT and software solution provider to more than 650 community-owned utilities and telephone organizations, has been selected by Great River Energy, a generation and transmission (G&T) co-op based in Maple Grove, Minn., to provide meter data management (MDM) and demand response (DR) management solutions to a smart grid demonstration project. more...
Aclara Demand Response Management System Advances Load Control at Twin Valleys Public Power District
Aclara Power-Line Systems (TWACS Technology) - Aclara, a leader in Intelligent Infrastructure technologies for utilities and part of the Utility Solutions Group of ESCO Technologies Inc. more...
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Reliable, Resilient and Secure - Does your Smart Grid Communication Infra deliver on it's promise?

Blogger Photo By Devendra Vishwakarma - Everybody in Power Systems and Utilities community will agree to the fact that Reliable, Resilient and Secure Communications infrastructure is more...

Use Smart Meter Data and Surveys to Increase Relevance for Energy Consumers

Blogger Photo By Bryan Truex -   Utility consumers are definitely not alike; spanning the spectrum of age, orientation, needs and preferences. With utilities rolling out more...

How Not to do a reform Programme - Test Case India

By Alok Misra - Electricity reforms and technlogy development in Utilities especially in India have been long due.Those utilities who have had an interacrtion more...

Smart Meter Security : Do we need to panic? Or make mitigation strategy?

Blogger Photo By Devendra Vishwakarma - Since the beginning this week t he focus of the smart grid discussions has been  around smart meter and AMI communications more...

Technical losses and Missing Standards on Smart grid and metering etc In India- RAPDRP

By Alok Misra - Permitted technical losses in electrical distribution system design has been put at 16 % in India under the RAPDRP programme more...
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Demystifying Utility Analytics -- What it's all about, where it's going, and how to get started.

 Monday May 21, 2012 - 11:00 AM Eastern - Virtual Event

This webinar offers pragmatic advice for utilities that are considering data analytics investments; it shares insights from a utility that has been on the leading edge of the data analytics movement in power generation; and it discusses the opportunity to more...

Customer Analytics Issues, Trends, & Drivers

Wednesday May 30, 2012 - 12:00 PM Eastern - Virtual Event

Learn how utilities are realizing the full potential from new customer data in this free Executive Insights webcast, which will include lessons from utilities in the field, as well as an overview of results from the Utility Analytics Institute's Annual more...

Securing AMI at BC Hydro: The Benefits of a Multi-Layered Security Architecture

 Thursday May 31, 2012 - 12:00 PM Eastern - Virtual Event

Cyber security is one of the top concerns for utilities that are implementing a smart grid network solution. Consumer privacy and data integrity are critical. The good news is that industry leaders have established proven processes and procedures to mitigate more...

Smart Grid Analytics: All That Remains to be Ready is You

 Tuesday Jun 12, 2012 - 1:00 PM Eastern - Virtual Event

Join us for a live smart grid analytics discussing real life case studies for how analytics can change the speed of business today, allowing users to unleash their creativity and focus on what matters: data-driven insights that benefit the business. more...
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Smart Metering: Getting the Consumer Onside

By Jim Hayward
In this article, Jim Hayward and David Wing, of Baringa Partners, share their thoughts on what suppliers must learn from consumer psychology (and history) to ensure smart meter roll outs succeed.

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Filed Under Metering

MDM in Cloud Computing

By Ashish Gupta
Cloud computing has brought in radical change in the way IT infrastructure (compute, storage and network) can be provisioned on demand from a shared pool and charged on pay per use model. This results in more...
Filed Under Metering

Smart Meter Marketing

By Kenneth Smith
Let's face it. Most consumers really don't care about electricity per se, except those of us who work in the industry. Just like most consumers really don't care about hand tools, except serious do-it-yourselfers and more...
Filed Under Metering

De-Mystifying AMI Infrastructure Management

By Manish Kumar Pandey
AMI Infrastructure management is critical to utilities business to ensure higher network availability, secure communications and have a framework to effectively manage smart metering infrastructure with the ability to scale. As utilities are busy deploying more...
Filed Under Metering

Getting the Best Value Smart Meter for Your Money

By Mark Englad
Utilities and governments must think ahead when planning a smart meter roll-out -- early obsolescence is an expensive error. Customize and build in future-proofing to stay ahead of the game advises Mark England, CEO, Sentec. more...
Filed Under Metering
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