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HONEYWELL LAUNCHES FULL-SCALE SMART GRID PROJECT TO REDUCE STRAIN ON ELECTRICAL NETWORKS IN THE UK
Honeywell Utility Solutions - Honeywell (NYSE: HON) today announced a smart grid project that will help SSE plc connect up to 30 commercial and industrial buildings in the Thames Valley area west of London, and temporarily reduce electricity consumption when overall use spikes. more...
Cooper Power Systems Offers Smart Solutions for a Smarter Grid
Cooper Power Systems - Utilities face significant challenges: An aging infrastructure, reliability, and regulation are current top concerns. more...
ABB to supply substations designed to handle high-power demand
ABB Inc. - ABB, the leading power and automation technology group, has won an order worth about $11 million from Facebook Inc.'s subsidiary Pinnacle Sweden, to power its first server facility outside the United States. more...
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SAIC Discusses Current Smart Grid Issues
SAIC Energy, Environment & Infrastructure, LLC - When implementing smart grid technology, many types of information technology systems come into play. more...
ABB Smart Grid Center of Excellence is now open for business
ABB Inc. - ABB, the leading power and automation technology group, announced that its Raleigh-based Smart Grid Center of Excellence facility, first announced last year and backed by a $10 million investment from ABB, is now operational and open for business. more...
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DistribuTECH - A Communications Revolution

Blogger Photo By Jay Cappy - At the leading Smart Grid conference in San Antonio many of the leading vendors will be showcasing their products and more...

Is Your Infrastructure Ready for Smart Metering? – Part 3

Blogger Photo By Jay Cappy - By Jay Cappy, Verizon Business PS Utility Practice Lead – IT Advisory Services This is part three of the five more...

ELECTRICITY BILLING

Blogger Photo By Vinodh K - There are as many billing methodologies as there are number of Utilities. Some of the billing methodologies are simple while more...

Is Your Infrastructure Ready for Smart Metering? – Part 2

Blogger Photo By Jay Cappy - By Jay Cappy, Verizon Business PS Utility Practice Lead – IT Advisory Services   This is part two of the more...

Consumer education needs to move far beyond the meter

Blogger Photo By Kate Rowland - I was beyond exasperation when, at a neighborhood get-together last night, a chemical engineer with decades of experience announced authoritatively more...
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Role of Artificial Neural Networks in Microgrid

By Satish Balantrapu
The increased prevalence of distributed generation resources, incentives and the need to provide a reliable, secure and clean supply of power to consumers has led to the emergence of a new type more...
Filed Under Grid Operations

Smart Distribution Grids: Beyond AMI

By Devendra Vishwakarma
Smart Grid has changed the way utilities look at their grids and the way customers look at their electric utilities. It all started with AMI infrastructure investments and now its time to look beyond the more...
Filed Under Grid Operations

A Useful Thing Happened on the Way to the Smart Grid: An Agile Grid, Part 5

By Stephen Hadden
The concept of an intelligent electric utility infrastructure or "smart grid" is attracting wide interest among utilities, consultants, regulators, and other utility stakeholders. This interest, however, is accompanied by widely differing expectations about when the more...
Filed Under Grid Operations

Future Power Systems - what will they look like and the 'Smart Enterprise'

By Stephen Browning
The Power System of the Future will be radically different from today, with high penetration of unpredictable variable output renewables. We have a lot of potential new technology and control mechanisms to utilise. more...
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Electricity 2.0 -- the smart grid

By Hermione Crease
Can you remember a time before the internet? Those long-gone days when information gathering meant a day in a dusty library. When mass communication meant hundreds of faxes and thousands of letters. It's hard to more...
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