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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...
Enspiria Solutions Expands Smart Grid Project and Program Management
Enspiria Solutions Inc. - Enspiria® Solutions, a leading provider of consulting and systems integration to the utility and government sectors announced today that the company continues to expand Smart Grid Program and Project Management capabilities with the addition of Scott Stein, PMP. more...
Alabama Gas Corporation to Automate 500,000 Meters Utilizing Itron Technology
Itron - Itron Inc. (NASDAQ:ITRI) announced today that Alabama's largest distributor of natural gas, Alabama Gas Corporation (Alagasco), has signed a contract for deployment of Itron's mobile automated meter reading (AMR) to 500,000 gas meters. Over the next three years, Alagasco expects data gathering, reliability and accuracy to all improve with deployment of the system. more...
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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...
Dominica Electricity Services Ltd (DOMLEC) Launches Elster's EnergyAxis System on Dominica
Elster Electricity, LLC - Dominica Electricity Services Limited (DOMLEC), in collaboration with Elster, a leader in smart metering and smart grid systems and solutions, will modernize its grid operations by deploying the first full-scale EnergyAxis® smart grid system for the island. 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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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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EnergyBiz Leadership Forum 2010: Energy's Emerging Architecture

 Feb 28, 2010 - Mar 2, 2010 - Washington, DC

In 2009, a global economic meltdown collided with an energy crisis to turn the world on its ear. In the United States we've witnessed an unprecedented spending on energy resource development and infrastructure. As a result, a new energy architecture more...
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A Useful Thing Happened on the way to the Smart Grid: the Agile Grid, Part 4

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 Smart more...
Filed Under Metering, AMR & Data Management

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 is creating opportunities to learn more about customer behavior and more...
Filed Under Metering, AMR & Data Management

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 patrons. But if the technologies are to reach their full more...
Filed Under Metering, AMR & Data Management

Let's Get Going: Smart Meters Go Global

By Howard Scott
For 25 years, I've written and lectured about the need for smart metering, often concluding by saying, "Someday, utilities will use all that data." Now, suddenly, the idea of smart metering and a smart grid more...
Filed Under Metering, AMR & Data Management

Intelligent Decision-making Using Smart Meters

By Prosenjit Dutta
As a utility, have you ever wondered if you are providing the customer with all necessary tools to make him a careful and informed stakeholder of your business? more...
Filed Under Metering, AMR & Data Management
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