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Power - With New Intelligence
150m Euros available to Smart Grid Researchers and Developers A new joint funding initiative between the Ministries of Economics (BMWi), Environment (BMU) and Education and Research (BMBF) will help propel Germany's 'Energiewende' (Energy Transition) further forward with EUR 150 million of new investment. The funding initiative, called 'Sustainable power grids', is an integral part of the ...
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Siemens and Allgäuer Überlandwerk Form Joint Venture for Smart Grid Expansion
iemens and Allgäuer Überlandwerk GmbH (A ÜW), based in Kempten, Germany, have formed a joint venture named egrid to commercially implement the results from IRENE and IREN2, two joint smart grid research projects in Wildpoldsried. It was agreed that Siemens would acquire a 49-percent share in the AÜW subsidiary, egrid applications & consulting GmbH. The transaction is ...
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Stephen Lacey Joins Greentech Media as Senior Editor
Greentech Media announces today that Stephen Lacey is joining their award-winning journalist staff as Senior Editor, primarily focusing on the energy efficiency market. Lacey has extensive experience reporting on the business and politics of cleantech. He was formerly Deputy Editor of Climate Progress, a climate and energy blog based at the Center for American Progress. He was also an ...
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The Impact of the Smart Grid on Connected Homes
The smart grid promises to interconnect the reviving North American building market, beginning in the commercial building sector as government mandates drive energy efficiency standards. However, this trend is reaching the residential market following the introduction of smart meters and other technologies that provide better communication between the utility and end-user. Despite the onset of ...
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The Impact of the Smart Grid on Connected Homes
The smart grid promises to interconnect the reviving North American building market, beginning in the commercial building sector as government mandates drive energy efficiency standards. However, this trend is reaching the residential market following the introduction of smart meters and other technologies that provide better communication between the utility and end-user. Despite the onset of ...
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Gifu University and Mitsubishi Heavy Industries Thermal Systems Form Joint Research Program Partnership
Mitsubishi Heavy Industries Thermal Systems Co., Ltd. (MHI Thermal Systems) has become the first partner in a new scheme by Gifu University to initiate joint research in partnership with the industrial sector. The university concluded an agreement with MHI which will focus on joint-research into smart grid power control engineering. The latest program was established in April 2017. It has been ...
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Utility Enterprise IT Spending for Smart Grid to Reach US$8.2 Billion by 2015, According to New GTM Research Report
The information and operations systems of utilities are coming under pressure as new smart grid assets (i.e., smart meters, distribution automation devices) converge upon utility territories nationwide. Leading utilities are scrambling to build the supporting information and operation systems in parallel with device deployment, a trend GTM Research expects to ...
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Mitsubishi Electric to Exhibit at Eco-Products 2011
Mitsubishi Electric Corporation (TOKYO:6503) announced today that it will exhibit a variety of green products, technologies and initiatives at Eco-Products 2011, one of the largest environmental exhibitions in Japan, which will take place at the Tokyo Big Sight exhibition complex on December 15–17. The company will introduce how it is working to support ...
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RTI Wins Department of Energy Funding to Research Smart Grid Security Leveraging the Data-Distribution Service (DDS) Standard
November 8, 2016 -- Real-Time Innovations (RTI), the Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) connectivity platform company, recently announced it received funding from the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) to support continuing smart grid research that utilizes the Data-Distribution Service™ (DDS™) standard. Today's power grid relies on a centralized architecture that faces challenges ...
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The US, Japan, and China Lead the $113.5 Billion Grid Storage Market in 2017
Despite regulatory uncertainty, a highly-fragmented global market, and a risk-averse client base, the demand for energy storage on the grid will zoom to $113.5 billion in 2017, from a $2.8 billion market in 2012, reaching 185.4 gigawatt-hours (GWh) of capacity from 3.2 GWh, according to a Lux Research report. Lux Research analysts developed a dynamic Grid ...
By Lux Research
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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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IBM Continues to Advance Smart Grid Developments in Korea
In conjunction with the semi-annual Global Intelligent Utility Network Coalition (GIUNC) meeting, IBM (NYSE: IBM) today announced its collaboration with Korea Electric Power Company (KEPCO), on the building of the Total Operations Center at the Jeju Smart Grid Test-Bed Demonstration Complex. The center will allow the 160 companies and 11 consortia members operating at the Jeju Complex to ...
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5th Microgrid Global Innovation Forum to Focus on EMEA/Latin America/Asia Pacific
The 5th edition of the Microgrid Global Innovation Forum, September 4-6, 2017 in Barcelona, will focus on microgrid advances, case studies and applications in EMEA, Asia-Pacific, and Latin America. The emphasis is on optimizing the business model for a range of microgrid deployments, maximizing the use of renewable and distributed energy resources, and sharing real-world case studies in both ...
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SCHMID Supplies Energy Storage for Smart Grid
In the Smart Grid Technology Lab, researchers of the TU Dortmund are developing and testing components for smart grids. To this end, they have created an infrastructure which is to be expected in a future low-voltage grid. In addition to electric vehicles, PV systems and a controllable local power transformer, these are also efficient energy storages. Soon a Vanadium Redox Flow Battery from ...
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Recession and Green Technology Trend to Drive New Wave of Smart Grid Consumer Investment
FARMINGTON, Conn., May 21, 2012/PRNewswire-iReach/ -- Global Information Inc. is pleased to announce the availability of two brand new Residential Clean Energy and Smart Grid Market Research reports from Pike Research: Home Energy Management: Market Analysis and Forecasts Pike Research's new Home Energy Management market research report, In-Home Displays, Networked HEM Systems, Standalone HEM ...
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Smart Grid Consumer Survey
Reportlinker.com announces that a new market research report is available in its catalogue: Smart Grid Consumer Survey http://www.reportlinker.com/p0346135/Smart-Grid-Consumer-Survey.html#utm_source=prnewswire&utm_medium=pr&utm_campaign=Electrical_Equipment Preferences and Attitudes about Smart Meters, Home Energy Management, Demand Response Programs, and Smart Appliances One of the ...
By ReportLinker
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TECNALIA invests 14 million Euros in laboratories for the development of Smart Grids
Today (Feb 16, 2015), Lehendakari Iñigo Urkullu presided over the inauguration of TECNALIA's new Research, Development and Certification Laboratories for Electrical Equipment for Smart Grids. At the opening ceremony, he was accompanied by Asis Canales and Joseba Jauregizar, ViceChairman and Managing Director of TECNALIA Research & Innovation, respectively. TECNALIA has invested 14 ...
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Global Information, Inc. Announces Smart Grid IT Systems Research and Electric Power Distribution Forecasts
FARMINGTON, Conn., April 11, 2012/PRNewswire-iReach/ -- Global Information, Inc. is pleased to announce three significant new clean energy, battery, and electricity distribution market research reports available immediately. Smart Grid IT Systems The "smart" in smart grid comes from the ability to generate, manage, and analyze a wide range of new information about the network and its users. ...
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Greentech Media Announces The Networked EV 2011: Smart Grids and Electric Vehicles
Greentech Media, the industry-leader for news, market research and conferences in the green technology business-to-business market, announces The Networked EV 2011: Smart Grids and Electric Vehicles on October 20, 2011 in San Francisco, CA at the PG&E Auditorium. The Networked EV 2011 will bring together the thought-leaders of the electric vehicle, smart ...
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IBM and EKZ Make Electric Vehicle Charging More Convenient with New Smartphone Application
IBM Research (NYSE: IBM) today announced that it has teamed with EKZ, the electricity utility provider of the Canton of Zurich in Switzerland, on a new pilot project that will allow consumers to conveniently charge electric vehicles and monitor their energy costs, using mobile devices. This near real-time information will also help utility providers better manage power grid loads during peak ...
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