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Itron's Fixed Network, Advanced Two-Way Communication to the Endpoint Offers NW Natural Gas Added Value beyond Automation
Itron - Itron Inc. (NASDAQ: ITRI) announced today that NW Natural Gas is leveraging its deployment of Itron advanced metering technology to include evaluation of its fixed network for collecting two-way time-synchronized interval data and on-demand reads from customers, as well as retrieve up to 40 days of interval data. Now operational, the two-way gas advanced metering infrastructure (AMI) solution is collecting reads from within a targeted population of NW Natural's 100G and 100G Datalogging Gas ERT(R) modules. more...
Siemens sponsors Grid-Interop 2009
Siemens Energy, Inc. - Grid-Interop 2009 is an annual three-day gathering of thought leaders from around the world who will focus on the successful interconnection of transmission and distribution devices to enable the Smart Grid. more...
Sensus Marks the Deployment of Four Million FlexNet SmartPoint Devices
Sensus - Electric, gas, and water utilities have installed more than four million Sensus FlexNet(TM) communications systems endpoints--double the number installed last year at this time--and ten percent of President Barak Obama's recently announced goal of deploying 40 million smart meters over the next several years. more...
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ABB and Fortum to develop large-scale smart grid for sustainable city project
ABB Inc. - ABB, the leading power and automation technology group, will work on a joint development project with the Nordic utility Fortum to design and install a large-scale smart grid in a new district of the city of Stockholm. more...
LG Electronics, Electrolux, Control4, HomeGrid Forum, Midas Medici Group Holdings and CABA Join Smart Grid Association
Demand Response and Smart Grid Coalition (DRSG) - The Demand Response and Smart Grid Coalition (DRSG) announced today that six companies have joined the trade association and will contribute to its efforts aimed at developing markets for smart grid technologies and smart grid practices like demand response. more...
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Intelligence for the Utility as Well as the Grid

Blogger Photo By Bart Thielbar - What comes first – the smart meter or the ability to capture and effectively utilize the information available from the more...

Gems from Silicon Valley and GreenBeat 2009

Blogger Photo By Kate Rowland - Today’s GreenBeat 2009 conference in San Mateo, California, brought together venture capitalists, analysts, electric utility executives and smart grid solutions more...

Interim airport report: Grid-Interop

Blogger Photo By H. Christine Richards - After all of the interoperability work that went on with EPRI and NIST earlier this year, I had to ask: more...

Where the utility hits the road: mobile workforce optimization

Blogger Photo By Kate Rowland - Back in September, I had the opportunity to meet with Thomas Ligocki, the president and CEO of Clevest Solutions Inc. more...

Partnership, Not Preemption

Blogger Photo By Bart Thielbar - As discussed in prior posts, the industry-wide implementation of smart grid technologies is a long journey.  Similar to other long more...
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Critical Infrastructure Determines Long-Term Strategy, Part II

By Raj Vaswani
Application vendors have historically been defined by the physical medium of their solution. A vendor might be "wireless" or "powerline," but rarely both. Over the past few years, there has been a dizzying increase in more...
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Critical Infrastructure Determines Long-Term Strategy, Part I

By Eric Dresselhuys
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Strategies for Success in Enterprise Architecture

By Paul Kurchina
As utilities plan a smart grid vision, a key strategy is how to manage the information flow between devices and enterprise systems. It's about advanced metering infrastructure (AMI). It's about real-time. It's about the spatial more...
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The Critical Role of Enterprise GIS in Smart Grid Technology

By Bill Meehan
GIS is widely recognized for its strong role in managing traditional electric power transmission and distribution and telecommunications networks. GIS will likewise play a strong role in managing the smart grid. For utilities, GIS already more...
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Computer Security Experts: the Grid's Communications Infrastructure is Not Yet Invulnerable

By Kate Rowland
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