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Smart grids, smart cities - smart future
Is the world moving in the right direction? Is the progress towards smarter use of energy resources satisfactory and sustainable? Are we, responsible for our own future moving towards smart future? These and other related issues will be discussed in Amsterdam on a dedicated conference. Smart grids experts from around the world will get together to share real-life applications, new energy ...
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PG&E Named A Top Utility For Smart Grid Implementation
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. This marks the second year in a row that PG&E received a North American Networked Utility Award. Awards will be presented to the top ten North American utilities for their smart ...
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Australia’s Smart Grid Opportunity
Australia is now considered to be one of the world leaders in technology, comparable only to the United States in terms of smart grid innovation. Last year they received from the Federal Government a National Energy Efficiency Initiative of AU$100 million to develop a smart-grid energy network. A recent study, conducted by IDC, polled utility leaders from Australia, about their major ...
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Energy Efficiency: Main Driver in Energy Information Management and the Connected Homes Market
MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif., March 7, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- WHEN: Wednesday, Mar. 14, 2012 at 1:00 p.m. EDT LOCATION: Online, with free registration SPEAKERS: Alejandra Lozano, Research Analyst for Frost & Sullivan's Environment & Building Technologies practice Due to the increasing focus on reducing energy consumption in North America, ...
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Smart grid protection & control journal helps utilities begin their smart grid journey
The new Smart Grid edition of the Protection & Control Journal presents utility and protection & control (P&C) professionals with information to develop a framework for the Smart Grid. It presents real, tested business cases and technology solutions that can be implemented by utilities around the world. The articles in the Smart Grid Protection & Control Journal, written by ...
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Trilliant Receives 2012 Green Innovator Award of Excellence
REDWOOD CITY, Calif., March 22, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Trilliant, a global smart grid communications leader in delivering solutions that enhance energy efficiency, utility operations and renewable resource integration, has been selected as the recipient of the Green Innovator Award of Excellence for 2012 by the San Mateo County Economic Development Association (SAMCEDA). This honor is awarded ...
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Frost & Sullivan: Numerous Stakeholders to Collaborate for a Successful Smart Grid Implementation
Investments in smart grid technologies peaked in 2010, exhibiting an astounding annual growth rate of 59.7 percent over 2009. Despite the heavy investments, the industry is far from achieving its goal of deploying a true smart grid. Manufacturers promoting their smart grid technology to utilities have to contend with several issues such as securing financial backing, marketing in a highly ...
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IEA press conference “technology roadmap: smart grids”
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, economic development and climate ...
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IEA press conference on smart grids
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, economic development and climate ...
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Next Stage of £83m Smart Grid Enablers Project Begins
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 to make Smart Substations more of a reality. This ...
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Market Research Forecasts the Smart Grid Market at $33 Billion
MarketResearch.com has announced the addition of the new report "The Smart Grid Market 2012-2022," to their collection of Utilities market reports. For more information, visit http://www.marketresearch.com/Visiongain-v1531/Smart-Grid-6917022/ Smart grid technology combines traditional grid infrastructure with the advantages of advanced internet technology, with the aim of improving the ...
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Verisae Partners with Schneider Electric to Provide Demand Response (DR) Offerings
Companies Creating Virtual Power Plants and Implementing Smart Grid Solutions MINNEAPOLIS - Verisae, the global leader in Sustainability Resource Planning (SRP) solutions, today announced their partnership with Schneider Electric, a global specialist in energy management. The partnership will bring a comprehensive Demand Response (DR) product to commercial and industrial customers across the ...
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The Chimera of customer satisfaction in the utility sector: EcoPinion consumer survey points to nuances and need for alternative customer metrics
EcoAlign, a strategic marketing agency in the energy sector, released the findings today of a consumer survey examining customer metrics utilized in the utility sector and other sectors, including customer satisfaction scores and alternative customer metrics. One thousand Americans nationwide responded to the survey conducted in September 2011. EcoAlign conducted the survey in conjunction with ...
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Berkeley Lab researchers announce OpenADR specification to ease saving power in buildings through demand response
A new data model developed by researchers at the Department of Energy’s Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory and their colleagues at other universities and in the private sector will help facilities and buildings save power through automated demand response technology, and advance the development of the Smart Grid. The researchers who developed Open ADR (Open Automated Demand Response) are part ...
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Frost & Sullivan Lauds Itron for Its Unique Open-Architecture Smart Grid Solutions
Frost & Sullivan announced today it has recognized Itron, Inc. with the 2011 North America Frost & Sullivan Award for Product Quality Leadership based on the firm's recent analysis of the smart meter market. Each year, Frost & Sullivan presents this award to a company that has developed high-quality products with innovative features and functionalities that enhance customer value and ...
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National Grid Selects Itron and Cisco’s Smart Grid Solution for Pilot Program
Itron, Inc. (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 Grid Pilot Program in Worcester, Mass. This project adds to the ...
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Elexicon Energy, Opus One Solutions, and Marshall Homes Design Canada's First Preplanned Nested Microgrid Residential Community
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 the Smart Grid and Grid Innovation ...
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Smart Grid Market, Frost & Sullivan Identifies the Fastest-growing Sectors in Europe
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 grid implementation. The smart meter rollout in Europe is well underway, boosted by the European Union legislation to achieve ...
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OpenADR Alliance selects Intertek for National Smart Grid Initiative in the U.S.
Intertek, a leading global provider of quality and safety services, today announced that the OpenADR Alliance has selected Intertek as its exclusive testing and certification laboratory, providing conformance testing and certification for OpenADR 2.0 compliant products for interoperability with the smart grid. Demand Response (DR) is the ability of demand side ...
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Germany Maps Out Financing Plan for Renewable Energies
E-world energy and water 2012 Germany recently passed the 20 percent mark for renewable energy in the electricity mix. And the federal KfW bank group has introduced a new plan to further accelerate this shift to renewables, with increases in multimillion euro business loans now available. As more renewable energy is generated, energy management and storage are also receiving increased focus. ...
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