The U.S. Department of Interior’s Bureau of Land Management (“BLM”), which manages over 245 million acres, recently published in the Federal Register an Advance Notice of Proposed Rulemaking to give the public background information about the BLM’s interest in establishing an efficient, competitive process for issuing right-of-way (ROW) leases for solar and wind energy development on Continue reading →
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OnStar is inviting utilities, energy companies and others to take advantage of an opportunity to create smart grid apps for GM’s Chevrolet Volt by offering developers a proprietary set of its application programming interfaces (APIs). The company hopes the offer will result in a broader selection of solutions for integrating EVs like the Volt into Continue reading →
The thermostat in Colleen Lunden’s Upland condominium knows to turn itself on at 4:45 a.m. to warm up the house for her husband, Chris, an early riser, then to power down until she’s ready to get up at a more reasonable hour. Later in the day, Lunden’s office computer shows her a live feed from Continue reading →
Digi International (NASDAQ: DGII) today introduced the ConnectPort® X2e for Smart Energy, a low-cost, enhanced version of the company’s ZigBee Smart Energy gateway. The gateway connects ZigBee Smart Energy devices from a Home Area Network (HAN) to an energy service provider via broadband. It offers additional memory and processing power for over-the-air updates of connected Continue reading →
The results are in from San Diego Gas & Electric’s (SDG&E) Biggest Energy Saver campaign in California, which utilized the Tendril Connect (TM) cloud platform, Tendril in-home smart devices, and a social media gaming application developed by Simple Energy integrated on the Tendril platform. The winner of the Biggest Energy Saver campaign, Erica Faunce of Continue reading →
Pacific Gas and Electric Company (PG&E) hit the ground running in mid- and late November with a series of announcements about its next smart grid projects, in line with its Smart Grid Deployment Plan filed with the California Public Utilities Commission (CPUC) earlier this year. via PG&E files smart grid pilot deployment project application | Continue reading →
When the Federal Communications Commission identified six concrete goals in the national broadband plan, the one specific application highlighted by the agency was energy consumption: “To ensure that America leads in the clean energy economy, every American should be able to use broadband to track and manage their real-time energy consumption.” via BroadbandBreakfast.com: Will Consumer-Friendly Continue reading →
Grid2Home officials have confirmed that they took part in ETSI (News – Alert) M2M Workshop in Sophia Antipolis, France held last week, to showcase their Smart Energy 2.0 device to the participants. Smart Energy 2.0 device which can be controlled and managed securely by a remote cloud based server using G2H-SE2 Software and InterDigital’s (News – Alert) Continue reading →
Grid2Home, developer of Smart Energy Profile 2.0 (SEP 2) communication technologies, today announced that they participated in a multi-vendor demonstration of a new ETSI standard for machine-to-machine communication at the ETSI M2M Workshop in Sophia Antipolis, France on October 26-27, 2011. During the workshop, Grid2Home demonstrated a Smart Energy 2.0 device controlled and managed securely Continue reading →
For the expansion of smart grids Siemens Infrastructure & Cities has developed a smart grid solution based on its AMIS system, which covers both smart metering and the automation of distribution networks. In addition, Siemens has for the first time integrated in this application the energy automation, power quality and multimedia functions. For example, the Continue reading →
SAP runs an event called InnoJam at its developer TechEd conferences. The SAP InnoJam events are held during the weekend prior to TechEd. During these events, people from the SAP community compete against each other in teams building working prototypes of solutions to real business cases, using SAP technologies. SAP solicit ideas for business cases Continue reading →
Honeywell (NYSE: HON) today announced the addition of time-of-use utility price schedule programming capability to the Prestige® programmable thermostat. This new “smart” control enables a homeowner to automate energy consumption based on its actual cost, bringing the benefits of a smart grid into their home. Like long distance telephone calls, electricity prices during specific times Continue reading →
The energy sector has a new fashion trend. The iPhone App. The German company eQ-3 has written a program window, radiator, light switches and dozens of other things in the budget controlled by finger. The U.S. start-up Control4 provides a home management system that automatically dims the light and Filmegucken PC and TV turns off, Continue reading →
