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EnerNOC, Inc. - EnerNOC, Inc. (NASDAQ: ENOC), a leading provider of clean and intelligent energy solutions, today announced that the California Public Utilities Commission (CPUC) has approved two separate contracts to provide demand response and distributed generation resources in Southern California. more...
HONEYWELL AWARDED SMART GRID GRANT FROM U.S. DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY
Honeywell Utility Solutions - Honeywell (NYSE:HON) today announced it has been awarded an $11.4-million grant from the Department of Energy (DOE) as part of the largest single energy grid modernization investment in U.S. 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...
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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...
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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...

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...

Knowledge 2009 pop quiz results

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Introducing the Microsoft Smart Energy Reference Architecture for Utilities

 Dec 8, 2009 - 1:00 pm Eastern - Your city

Microsoft Smart Energy Reference Architecture (SERA) is Microsoft’s first comprehensive reference architecture that addresses technology integration throughout the full scope of the smart energy ecosystem. The Microsoft SERA helps utilities by providing a method of testing the alignment of information more...
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Meaningful Interaction: KCP&L Customers Speak Out

By Stephen Smith
While utilities are undertaking a variety of measures to better manage peak demand and contain costs, true energy management success hinges on the ability to actively engage and interact with residential and commercial customers. more...
Filed Under Demand Response & Home Area Networks

Managing the Invisible

By Kathy Barbian
Demand response and energy efficiency are often joined at the hip. In this article, written for Intelligent Utility magazine's May/June issue, the author shares how We Energies assists its customers in monitoring their energy usage, more...
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Twenty-First Century Demand Response

By Ron Bernstein
Despite the still-depressed economy and high (and increasingly unpredictable) costs of fuel and electricity, consumers are using more energy today than at any other time in history. They are heating and cooling larger homes, making more...
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Residential Energy Efficiency: This Is How We Do It (Part 2)

By Andy Frank
The "behavior resource" can be a more cost-effective solution than traditional rebate programs. By approaching energy efficiency from a consumer marketing perspective, utilities and others can take advantage of a few key principles to maximize more...
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Residential Energy Efficiency: It's the Behavior, Stupid

By Andy Frank
As utilities, regulators and other market actors face increasing pressure to dramatically ratchet up energy efficiency and demand response programs, a new buzzword, behavior, is fundamentally changing the approach to energy efficiency. Behavior strategies, often more...
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