distributed smart grid News
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Cemig recognizes Eaton was one of its best suppliers for the 2nd year in a row
For the second year in a row, Eaton, a global power management company, which in 2012 acquired Cooper, has been chosen as one of the best suppliers of CEMIG (Companhia Energética de Minas Gerais) in 2013. The event, which took place on May 21st, gathered numerous participants in the company’s auditorium. The initiative is aimed towards valuing the relationship of trust of Cemig and ...
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Kingo Secures $4 Million Round of Debt Financing From Developing World Markets
Kingo has begun a new phase in its mission to transform the global energy supply, and eradicate energy poverty across the developing world. Earlier this year, the firm announced its opening round of debt financing, securing $4 million in senior secured debt financing from Developing World Markets (DWM – www.dwmarkets.com). "This transaction will help Kingo advance towards its goals in ...
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U.S. Department of Energy Partners with NASA to Call for Transformative Energy Ideas
The U.S. Department of Energy's Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy (ARPA-E) today (3/29) joined NASA in launching a new NASA iTech challenge, a competition inviting the nation's top entrepreneurs and researchers to showcase their ideas for transformative energy concepts. The challenge seeks to identify innovative technologies that can improve energy generation, storage and distribution to ...
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SMUD Selects OSI Technology for a New Advanced Distribution Management System
Open Systems International, Inc. (OSI) has been selected by the Sacramento Municipal Utility District (SMUD) to supply a new Advanced Distribution Management System (ADMS) based on OSI's monarch operations technology (OT) platform. This state-of-the-art solution will interface with SMUD's existing Energy Management System and Outage Management System, enabling improved distribution operations ...
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Dominion and Lockheed Martin Announce Grid Side Energy Efficiency Solution and Development Alliance
Dominion (NYSE: D) and Lockheed Martin (NYSE: LMT) announced today the availability of the EDGE(SM) Grid Side Efficiency solution for utilities. EDGE is the first of several smart grid applications to be delivered through a joint marketing and development alliance between the two companies. EDGE is a modular and adaptive conservation voltage management solution enabling utilities to deploy ...
By Dominion
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Public Service Electric and Gas of New Jersey Goes Live with OSI Distribution Management Platform
Open Systems International, Inc. (OSI) has successfully completed implementation of a major centralized Distribution Management platform for Public Service Electric and Gas (PSE&G) of New Jersey. A part of PSE&G's Energy Strong program, this project has been implemented to increase the resiliency of the company's electric delivery system and to improve the overall system performance, ...
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Chris hickman joins ice energy
Windsor, Colo.-based Ice Energy, a provider of distributed energy storage and smart grid solutions for optimizing peak energy demand, has appointed Chris Hickman senior vice president of utility solutions. Hickman will be instrumental in leading the sale and delivery of the company's energy storage and smart grid technologies and providing utility companies with cost-effective solutions to ...
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Frost & Sullivan to Present Siemens Infrastructure and Cities Sector with the Unique 2012 Global Frost & Sullivan Company of the Year Award for Leveraging on `City as a Customer`
Frost & Sullivan is proud to present the 2012 Global Award for Company of the Year in the 'City as a Customer' market to Siemens Infrastructure and Cities Sector. This prestigious award recognizes a company's best practices in identifying global Mega Trends and their implications, and subsequently pioneering products and services to take a competitive lead in servicing this new client base ...
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Dewa completes short-term goals of Smart Grid Strategy
HE Saeed Mohammed Al Tayer, MD & CEO of Dubai Electricity and Water Authority (DEWA), announced that DEWA has completed the short-term goals of its Smart Grid Strategy 2014-2035. Between 2015 and 2020, DEWA replaced all electricity and water meters with smart meters, a deployment of over two million smart meters. By automating meter readings, DEWA empowers its customers with ...
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DNV GL Adds Three Experts With Deep Energy Efficiency Expertise to Its Sustainable Energy Use Team
DNV GL, the world's largest resource of independent energy experts and certification body, has made three key additions to its Sustainable Use business: Craig Williamson, Bob Ramirez, and Marc Collins. Energy use patterns in North America are rapidly changing in response to customer-sited automation technologies, distributed energy resources, and evolving regulatory climates. DNV GL has taken a ...
By DNV GL
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DEWA Signs Agreement With Silver Spring Networks
Silver Spring Networks recently announced that its subsidiary, Silver Spring Networks International Limited, has entered into an agreement with the Dubai Electricity & Water Authority (DEWA) to establish a communication platform based on Silver Spring's IPv6 multi-application Radio Frequency (RF) Mesh Canopy, which will allow DEWA to provide smart grid applications such as smart electricity, ...
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Building a continental renewable super grid
As the planet warms and the economy cools, renewable resources are emerging as a realistic means to solve both problems in a timely fashion. Advocates of renewable energy want trillions of dollars spent in the coming decades on a continental-scale smart grid that will slash global greenhouse gas emissions and turn society toward a prosperous and ecological future. How can we build such a grid? ...
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NREL selected to join Europe’s DERlab
The U.S. Department of Energy's National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) has been selected as a new member of the nonprofit Association of European Distributed Energy Resources Laboratories (DERlab). DERlab is an international association of leading laboratories and research institutions in the field of distributed energy resources equipment and systems. NREL was selected by DERlab in ...
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Accommodating Variable Renewable Energy in the Smart Grid: Germany Can Do It, U.S. Remains Doubtful
What happens when demand outpaces supply? The smart grid industry is facing this exact challenge. The added conundrum is that suppliers need to build on existing systems to accommodate creative forms of energy, such as variable renewable energy (VRE), and also stay within environmental emissions standards. How much VRE can be accommodated through the smart grid? Countries like the U.S. worry ...
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LF Energy Ecosystem Gains Momentum for Open Source Innovation With New Members and Projects
LF Energy, a Linux Foundation initiative developing and sustaining open source technology innovation in the energy and electricity sectors, is rapidly growing its community with additional founding Premier member, Faraday Grid, joining RTE. New General members include IBM, OSISoft, and Recurve; while Elering AS, Energinet, Energy Foundation, École Polytechnique Fédérale de ...
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MetaVu selected to instruct utility university(R) course and moderate panel at DistribuTECH 2012
MetaVu, Inc., a leading sustainability and environmental performance consulting firm, today announced it has been selected to instruct a prestigious Utility University® course and moderate an expert panel at the DistribuTECH 2012 Conference and Exhibition, the leading annual smart grid event, in San Antonio, January 22-26. MetaVu’s participation in DistribuTECH 2012 showcases the ...
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Landis+Gyr and Utilidata Join Forces to Transform Grid Operations
Landis+Gyr is joining forces with Utilidata to provide groundbreaking grid management through the deployment of edge applications on Landis+Gyr advanced meters, planned initially for the North American market. Embedded software will enable utilities to gather, analyze, and synthesize data from a multitude of grid endpoints.In an energy climate of shifting consumer expectations, distributed energy ...
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Smart Grid Market Global Forecast to 2030
The global smart grid market size is expected to grow from USD 23.8 billion in 2018 to USD 61.3 billion by 2023, at a Compound Annual Growth Rate (CAGR) of 20.9%, according to a new report by MarketsandMarkets. Major growth factors for the market include the need for effective management of smart grid operations, modernization of aging grid infrastructure, and the need for specialized service ...
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The energy transition of the economy, a major focus for Pollutec Horizons 2011
The upcoming Pollutec Horizons will run from 29th November to 2nd December 2011 at Paris Nord Villepinte (France) and the highly topical question of energy transition will be a major focus for it. There will be a space dedicated to Energy and climate change highlighting three strong themes: energy efficiency, renewables and exploiting waste for energy. Numerous professionals in this sector ...
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NREL’s Bobi Garrett Named Top Industry Executive
Bobi Garrett, deputy laboratory director for strategic programs and partnerships at the Energy Department's National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL), was recognized by the Denver Business Journal as one of the region's top female executives in the energy industry. Garrett was featured in the Business Journal's second annual Women in Energy special publication and honored at an event in July. ...
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