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Vattenfall, a World Leader in Smart Metering, Taps eMeter for Essential Grid Management Capabilities

eMeter, the leading global provider of Smart Grid Management Software, announced that the Vattenfall Group has selected eMeter’s EnergyIPTM meter data management (MDM) system to provide essential capabilities in support of Vattenfall’s smart metering initiative. more...
Filed under: Metering, AMR & Data Management

Utilities Kingston Partners with Fuseforward to Develop "Intelligent Utility" Technology

Utilities Kingston (UK) announced a partnership with leading-edge asset management technology provider FuseforwardTM to develop a comprehensive "Intelligent Utility" solution to support all aspects of utility management, including customer relations and billing, operations, service and maintenance management, financial management and reporting, and performance analysis. more...
Filed under: T&D Asset Management

Puget Sound Energy Selects Comverge for Smart Grid-Enabled Demand Response Pilot Program

Comverge, Inc. (Nasdaq: COMV), a leading provider of smart grid, demand management and energy efficiency solutions, today announced that it has been chosen by Puget Sound Energy (PSE) for the utility's Bainbridge Island, Wash., residential demand response pilot program. more...
Filed under: Demand Response & Home Area Networks

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With Pennsylvania Rate Caps Expiring, Bridesburg Foundry Selects EnerNOC Energy Supply Management and Saves $40,000 in First Six Months

EnerNOC, Inc. (Nasdaq:ENOC), a leading provider of clean and intelligent energy solutions, today announced that Whitehall, PA-based Bridesburg Foundry, one of the largest bronze and aluminum foundries on the East Coast, has selected EnerNOC's Energy Supply Management services to secure favorable energy contracts in advance of the expiration of Pennsylvania rate caps. more...
Filed under: Demand Response & Home Area Networks

Enspiria Solutions Included in Microsoft Smart Energy Reference Architecture (SERA) - Key Tool for Smart Grid Development

Enspiria® Solutions, a leading provider of consulting and systems integration to the utility and government sectors, announced that the company has been included in the recently published Microsoft Smart Energy Reference Architecture (SERA). more...
Filed under: Communication Infrastructure

Cooper Power Systems Introduces Next Generation Distribution System Analysis Software Package

Cooper Power Systems, a division of Cooper Industries plc (NYSE: CBE), today announced the introduction of CYMDIST 5.0, the next generation of the company's popular CYMDIST distribution systems analysis software. more...
Filed under: Distribution Management Systems

GridPoint to Provide Software Solutions for SMUD’s Smart Grid Solar Project

GridPoint, Inc., an established leader in smart grid software, announced today that it will provide storage management, renewable integration, and home energy management solutions for Sacramento Municipal Utility District’s (SMUD) smart grid solar project, the recipient of American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA) funding. more...
Filed under: Demand Response & Home Area Networks

Puget Sound Energy Selects Comverge for Smart Grid-Enabled Demand Response Pilot Program

Comverge, Inc. (Nasdaq: COMV), a leading provider of smart grid, demand management and energy efficiency solutions, today announced that it has been chosen by Puget Sound Energy (PSE) for the utility's Bainbridge Island, Wash., residential demand response pilot program. more...
Filed under: Demand Response & Home Area Networks

Despite missing grant, power company Oncor hopes to make 'smart meters' standard

In July, Dallas-based energy distributor Oncor applied for three federal stimulus grants worth $317 million as part of a Department of Energy initiative to modernize the electricity grid. more...
Filed under: Metering, AMR & Data Management

Con Edison Selects Send Word Now's Emergency Notification Service

Send Word Now, a worldwide provider of emergency notification and on-demand alerting and response services, announced today that Con Edison (NYSE: ED) has selected Send Word Now to provide emergency voice and text communication services to its entire enterprise. more...
Filed under: Mobile Workforce Management

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Snowy Hydro Provides Peak Demand Power Using $12 Million Control Systems Solution from Rockwell Automation

As part of a $12 million order from an electric power company, Rockwell Automation has supplied 15 of the 33 new control systems planned for Snowy Hydro Limited, owner and operator of the Snowy Mountains Hydroelectric Scheme in Australia. more...
Filed under: SCADA

IntelliCom wins major M2M contract

The contract covers a complete M2M system based on the NetBiter® solution where all monitoring, control and management of the field equipment is standardized through the netbiter.net online server. more...
Filed under: Communication Infrastructure

SRP getting part of $110M in stimulus funds

Salt River Project said it is part of projects totaling more than $110 million that have received funding through the Obama administration's economic stimulus program. more...
Filed under: Metering, AMR & Data Management

Stimulus cash to help JEA customers track power use

Wonder how much power your house is burning right this minute? EA might be looking for you soon. more...
Filed under: Demand Response & Home Area Networks

Infotility, Inc. Launches Smart Grid Demonstration Project Field Test in Marin County, California

Infotility, Inc., provider of distributed intelligent agent software that enables utilities and communities to increase the efficiency and utilization of electric grid assets such as solar and wind power, has launched the field-test phase of an Smart Grid demonstration project, funded by the US Department of Energy (DOE), in conjunction with The Marin County Office of Sustainability. more...
Filed under: Distribution Management Systems

Echelon and Unitronics Partner to Expand Enterprise Energy Management Solutions in Spain

Echelon Corporation (NASDAQ: ELON) announced today that Unitronics Comunicaciones, a leader in the Spanish IT and communications market, has become a reseller and integrator of Echelon’s LonWorks® technology in Spain. more...
Filed under: Communication Infrastructure

BPLG Transforms with SGIG Wins

BPL Global®, Ltd. (BPLG), a smart grid technology company dedicated to leading the transformation of energy efficiency and reliability, announces that BPLG and our strategic partners have collaborated with multiple electric utilities awarded Smart Grid Investment Grants (SGIG) from the DOE as part of the ARRA funding announcements made by President Obama earlier this week. One highlight is the opportunity for BPLG to work with FirstEnergy in supporting their award to modernize their electrical grid and reduce peak energy demand through multiple smart grid technologies. BPLG has the opportunity to work with our strategic partners on other named projects with award amounts totaling more than $800M. more...
Filed under: Communication Infrastructure

Cooper Power Systems Launches Security Update Qualification Program

Cooper Power Systems, a division of Cooper Industries plc (NYSE: CBE), today announced the introduction of a new program to qualify the applicability of Microsoft Security Updates to its products. more...
Filed under: Grid Security

WeatherBug Joins Forces with Northern Ireland Electricity, BT and UTV

WeatherBug®, providers of the largest private weather network in the world, has announced a partnership with Northern Ireland Electricity (NIE), BT and UTV New Media. more...
Filed under: T&D Reliability

AEP Ohio Selects AdaptiVolt

AEP Ohio, a unit of American Electric Power (NYSE:AEP), has selected PCS UtiliData’s AdaptiVolt™ Volt/Var Optimization system for a demand reduction project in northeast central Ohio as part of the company’s recently announced AEP Ohio gridSMARTSM Demonstration Project. more...
Filed under: T&D Automation

 

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Advanced Meter Data Management

Nov 9, 2009 - Nov 10, 2009 - London United Kingdom

With Smart meter Projects being proposed and approved across the globe there has never been a more suitable time for SMi to hold their inaugural conference Advanced Meter Data Management. more...

Filed under: Metering, AMR & Data Management
 
 

ARTICLES

The Information River

By Joe Kovacs - Information has become one of the most valuable commodities as emerging technologies help individuals manage data with ease and reliability. For utilities, the smart grid more...
Filed under: Metering, AMR & Data Management

Sensing Limbs: Electronic Vegetation Management in Action

By William Atkinson - For most utilities, using smart grid technology for vegetation management information is still in the theoretical stages, and it will be well into the future more...
Filed under: Mobile Workforce Management

Empowering Consumers: Moving Intelligence to the Edge of the Grid

By Audrey Zibelman -
The electric industry is now embarking upon a revolution which in many respects resembles the transformation that the communications industry has undergone in recent decades. more...
Filed under: T&D Automation

Potential Power: Balancing Utility and Consumer Control

By Ken Silverstein -
It's one thing to have an intelligent utility. It's another to have smart customers. Newer tools are permitting two-way communications between power companies and their more...
Filed under: Metering, AMR & Data Management

IP Ahead, But No Network Designed for It

By Paul Korzeniowski - In the world of a smarter grid, all communications connections will be paved with IP. The use of that networking protocol will enable vendors to more...
Filed under: T&D Automation
 
 

ENERGY BLOGS

SMARTENING UP THE DUMB

Blogger Photo By Kate Rowland - If I see the words “dumb grid” used one more time in the popular media, I’m going to scream!   more...

Planning the Work and Working the Plan

Blogger Photo By Bart Thielbar - The journey of a million miles that I blogged about last week is off to a solid start.  At the more...

USA Green Jobs and Sustainability

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US Wind Renewable Energy Project Equipped with DTS Condition Monitoring

Blogger Photo By LIOS Technology - For one of the biggest American renewable energy companies LIOS provided its well recognized DTS system for monitoring the temperature more...

Utility speed dating

Blogger Photo By Kate Rowland - I spent Monday afternoon utility speed dating at the Edison Electric Institute’s CFO conference in Hollywood, Florida, and I thoroughly more...

Ready, Set.....Wait!!

By Stephen Daniels - The government has picked the winners so let's start spending some stimulus money. Time to modernize the grid across the more...
 

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