The Smart Grid Consumer Coalition hopes to promote the benefits of modernizing the electricity grid to consumers. Unveiled at this week’s DistribuTech utility industry conference, the coalition’s founding members include IBM, General Electric, and Control4, a home energy management company. The formation of the Smart Grid Consumer Coalition was prompted in part by the backlashes Continue reading →
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The Demand Response and Smart Grid Coalition (DRSG) announced that six companies have joined the trade association and will contribute to its efforts aimed at developing markets for smart grid technologies and smart grid practices like demand response. The new DRSG members are LG Electronics USA, Electrolux, Control4, HomeGrid Forum, Midas Medici Group Holdings, Inc Continue reading →
Recent weeks have seen a significant peak in Smart Grid interest, much of which resulted from a speech about stimulus funds supporting Smart Grid development by U.S. President, Barack Obama. It seems appropriate then to introduce readers of this blog to the Global Intelligent Utility Network Coalition, a group of innovative utility companies we formed Continue reading →
Info on IBM’s Global Intelligent Utility Network Coalition.. In 2007, IBM formed a coalition of innovative utility companies to accelerate the use of smart grid technologies and move the industry forward through its most challenging transformation. The Global Intelligent Utility Network Coalition wants to change the way power is generated, distributed and used by adding Continue reading →
