Smart Grid Implementation Articles & Analysis
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Despite an overwhelming majority (79%) of business leaders agreeing that skills will be the most important driver of the green transition, just 55% are implementing or planning to implement relevant programmes to create these for their workforce. ...
Elexicon Energy, the fourth largest municipally-owned electricity distributor in Ontario, real estate developer and builder Marshall Homes and Canada's Opus One Solutions, a top 100 Global Cleantech Company, have partnered together to create a living smart grid pilot community called Altona Towns.Funded by Ontario's Ministry of Energy, Northern Development under ...
Northern Powergrid has begun the next phase of work on a significant and technically challenging project to modernise and future-proof more than 860 of its substation controllers for the implementation of smart grid solutions and applications. This next phase will see investment of £15 million in the next generation of substation controller ...
Pacific Gas and Electric Company (PG&E) today announced that it was named a top utility for smart grid implementation by GreenTech Media and GTM Research, leading analysts of clean energy markets and technology. ...
While several Australian electricity distribution utilities have progressed toward smart grid implementation, they are reluctant to substantially invest any further in smart grids due to the lack of specific payback periods. These reduced investments, along with unsatisfactory performances of ...
(NASDAQ:ITRI) announced today that National Grid, a supplier of electricity to approximately 3.4 million customers in the Northeast, has selected Itron’s smart grid solution which uses Cisco’s multi-application communications network for the utility’s 10,000 meter Smart ...
The past 2-3 years have witnessed an increasing interest in smart grids and smart energy. Smart grids are seen as key to addressing the intensifying demand for high-quality power and greater energy-efficiency. Smart meters are considered to be the first step towards smart ...
As indicated by the study, the North Americaregion emerged as the leading smart grid consumer in value, replacing Europe, where smart grid projects initially were implemented and with comparable growth rates. ...
Visiongain calculates that global smart grid market in 2012 will total $33.91bn. During the period 2012-2013, the smart grid market will be marked by shifting from smart metering implementation to actual realization of the grid infrastructure. In addition, the goal of the ...
Trilliant, taking first place in the "green" category, was chosen because of the company's commitment to making smart grid implementation more accessible for every energy user, and for the company's ongoing mission of increasing the efficiency of energy use throughout California and around the world. ...
This briefing will provide an assessment of the energy information management market and an analysis of the impact of smart grid implementation on the connected home market. Why you should attend: Gain knowledge about the current state of the energy information management market Identify drivers and restraints of energy information ...
"Solution providers are realizing that the implementation of a smart grid requires a communal effort involving stakeholders from different entities to ensure a seamless integration," said Frost & Sullivan Principal Consultant Farah Saeed. ...
"With such a large share of renewable energy in the mix, it is becoming more urgent to implement smart grid and storage technologies to balance the fluctuating supply. ...
The CCRC research agenda covers such issues as optimizing customer engagement capabilities enabled by smart grid, identifying and implementing best metrics to measure performance and customer satisfaction, developing capabilities to serve as the trusted energy advisor of the future, among other research initiatives. ...
The company's value propositions include a focus on addressing the cyber security issues of the grid and developing an open-standards smart grid solution that allows for future upgrades and compatibility with third-party technology. ...
“Together, the OpenADR Alliance and Intertek can further build industry confidence in the technical activities that happen across the smart grid while establishing compliance and standards to meet the needs of service providers, regulators and other key influencers involved with the electric ...
Groom Energy today announced several initiatives and resources to support the emerging Enterprise Smart Grid. The Enterprise Smart Grid is the integration of sub-metering, software and hardware to manage and reduce corporate energy costs. ...
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The Total Operations Center is an addition to Korea's Jeju Smart Grid Test-Bed project, the world's largest smart grid community established for smart grid research and testing. As part of the project development, KEPCO has leveraged the International Electrotechnical Commission (IEC) Common ...
When asked in the survey what factors most motivate the industry to invest in new technology, the two highest rated responses where “Regulatory Requirements” and “Government Incentives,” respectively. Smart Grid programs are hamstrung by “lack of customer interest and knowledge.” Survey participants rate customer engagement ...
The development of smart grids – which the IEA defines as an electricity network that uses digital and other advanced technologies to monitor and manage the transport of electricity from all generation sources to meet the varying electricity demands of end users – is essential if the global community is to achieve shared goals for energy security, ...