smart electricity meter News
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Smart Electricity Meters: Europe Emerges as Key Regional Market
Regulation-fueled rollouts of smart electricity meters are driven by the potential to reduce non-technical losses for electricity utilities, improve billing accuracy, and effectively integrate renewable energy with smart meters. With these rollouts, Europe, the Middle East and Africa (EMEA) are emerging as key regional smart electricity meter markets ahead of North America, while Asia-Pacific ...
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Non-invasive/intrusive energy data logger
For meters with a pulse output, an LED sensor which detects the flashing usage light on the meter can be supplied with the ENMAT Lite Data Logger and connects directly into the logger. This effectively turns any electricity meter into a ‘smart meter’. Non-invasive/non-intrusive No need to cut electricity supply for installation No need for additional Smart Meters Turns any ...
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Karlstad’s utilities choose technology from Aidon for the new generation of smart energy system
Energy utilities in Karlstad, Sweden, have chosen Aidon as the provider of the next generation’s smart energy metering system. The contract includes a delivery of ca. 35 000 smart electricity meters, 5 400 district heat meters, the metering value collection as Aidon ACloud SaaS service, as well as Aidon One, a map-based service for a detailed overview on metering points and AMI ...
By Aidon Oy
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LADWP Selects Itron and Cisco Technology for Smart Grid Project
Itron, Inc. (NASDAQ: ITRI) announced today that the Los Angeles Department of Water and Power (LADWP), the nation’s largest municipal utility, has selected Itron and Cisco technologies for its smart grid demonstration project. The project, supported by U.S. Department of Energy ARRA funding, will provide the city with the ability to evaluate technology and program benefits as part of its ...
By Itron Inc
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IDC Energy Insights Releases Top 10 Market Predictions for North American Utilities in 2013
IDC Energy Insights today hosted a Web conference titled, IDC Energy Insights Predictions 2013:North American Utilities, highlighting market predictions for the year ahead. Featuring analysts Dean Chuang, Jill Feblowitz, Rick Nicholson, Usman Sindhu, Casey Talon, and Marcus Torchia, the session provided organizations with insight and perspective on long-term industry trends along with new themes ...
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Southern California Edison Installs Four Millionth Itron Smart Meter, Expands Energy Management Programs and Services for Consumers
Itron, Inc. (NASDAQ: ITRI) announced today the installation of the four millionth smart meter by Southern California Edison (SCE), one of the nation's largest electric utilities serving central, coastal and southern California. The smart meters and associated smart metering systems installed by SCE are already supporting a variety of programs and services that ...
By Itron Inc
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Ameren Missouri Releases Plan to Transform State's Energy Grid
Ameren Missouri recently announced the largest infrastructure upgrade plan in the company's history. The Smart Energy Plan includes more than 2,000 electric projects over the next five years that will modernize the energy grid and enhance how customers receive and consume electricity for generations to come, all while keeping electric rates stable and predictable. "Building a smart grid for the ...
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Ameren Missouri Boosts Smart Energy Plan After Completing 900 Projects in First Year
Recently (2/26), Ameren Missouri, a subsidiary of Ameren Corporation, filed an updated Smart Energy Plan with the Missouri Public Service Commission. This five-year plan increases investments to $7.6 billion in continued grid modernization while leveraging the successes from the first year. "We are keeping our customers at the center of everything we do," said Marty Lyons, president of Ameren ...
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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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37 graduates congratulated as Carbon Management Programme rolled out to private sector
A further 37 organisations in Scotland graduated from the Carbon Trust’s Carbon Management Programme this week at an official ceremony in Edinburgh, marking the end of the eighth phase of the highly regarded programme. Historic Scotland is one of the organisations to graduate this year, in a cohort which includes a mix of public sector organisations, colleges, and police and fire and ...
By Carbon Trust
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O2 gets better connected on carbon
O2 has been recertified with the Carbon Trust Standard for successfully measuring, managing and improving carbon efficiency across its business by nearly 18%1, based on turnover. O2 was the first mobile network operator to be awarded the Carbon Trust Standard in January 2009. In the last two years the company has honed its energy efficiency strategies even further to cut carbon emissions by ...
By Carbon Trust
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Landis+Gyr and National Grid Sign Contract for Landmark Grid Modernization Project
Landis+Gyr Technology Inc., a subsidiary of Landis+Gyr Group AG, has signed a 20-year contract with National Grid for a state-of-the-art grid modernization project that is set to open the next wave of smart metering capabilities for utilities.National Grid will be among the first to deploy Landis+Gyr's Revelo meter, a residential meter that offers high-resolution sensing of streaming waveform ...
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Landis+Gyr`s Smart Meters to Power Ambitious Project in Spain
Spanish energy company Iberdrola has signed an order for the supply of more than 700,000 smart meters from Landis+Gyr, which was also chosen to provide a total of 1.5 million devices over the past six years. The newly ordered smart meters are of the latest generation and will be installed within the scope of the final phase of the STAR mass rollout, starting in 2017. By December 2018, IBERDROLA ...
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Itron to Provide Nationwide Smart Grid Solution for Jamaica
Itron recently (5/22) announced that it signed a contract with Jamaica Public Service Company (JPS) for a nationwide smart grid deployment. JPS, which serves more than 600,000 customers, will extend its existing Itron Gen 5 network to be able to support up to 670,000 electric meters, which will help the utility improve customer service, drive grid reliability and enable revenue realization. This ...
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Landis+Gyr Releases Industry-first 320 Amp Meter with Integrated Remote Service Switch
Landis+Gyr has released a first-of-its-kind advanced meter with an integrated remote service switch to safely manage 320 ampere residential applications.With the size of the average home at a historic high, more electronics in the home, and the growing adoption of electric vehicles, many of today’s residences have large electrical loads where typical 200 amp residential service is no longer ...
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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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IMServ launches new energy management white paper
An industry White Paper has been published for companies looking to better manage their energy efficiency in 2009.The Paper, entitled ‘Reducing consumption, costs and carbon’, published by leading energy solutions provider IMServ, is designed to advise firms on how smart metering and non-half-hourly automated meter reading can benefit them.The emergence of new technologies for energy management ...
By Loud Group
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American Electric Power Ohio`s Plan To Expand Advanced Energy Delivery System Approved
AEP Ohio, a unit of American Electric Power, received approval from the Public Utilities Commission of Ohio to implement its gridSMART Phase 2 Plan. The plan includes the installation of 894,000 smart meters in 31 communities throughout Ohio over the next four years. In addition to smart meters, AEP Ohio will expand the use of automated equipment on its distribution system to reduce restoration ...
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SDG&E Introduces New Incentives to Curb Residential Demand During Peak Hours
Ahead of what is forecasted to be another hot summer with high energy demand, San Diego Gas & Electric (SDG&E) has launched a new energy conservation incentive program that rewards customers with bill credits for reducing their energy use on days when the grid statewide is stressed by high energy demand.The Power Saver Rewards Program could be activated anytime between now and October 31 ...
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Itron to Modernize Electricity Grid at New Brunswick Power in Northeastern Canada
Itron, Inc., which is innovating the way utilities and cities manage energy and water, this week announced that New Brunswick Power (NB Power) will deploy Itron's multi-purpose solution, including an IoT network and more than 350,000 Measurement Canada-approved distributed intelligence-enabled smart meters, to modernize its electricity grid. The project is a part of NB Power's overarching smart ...
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