Can the right combination of technology and economic incentives get utility customers to turn down megawatts of power use fast enough to balance wind power’s ups and downs? Honeywell and Hawaiian Electric Co. (HECO) are going to try it out on the island of Oahu, using Honeywell’s automated demand response technology. Under the two-year pilot Continue reading →
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Wireless Glue Networks, Inc. and its partners, GKB Technology Company, Ltd., today announced they will showcase their latest Energy Management and Control System for Toko Electric Company at DistribuTECH. The system enables customers to measure real-time energy consumption and institute demand response (DR) programs through automated control of energy usage in conjunction with distributed generation. Continue reading →
Most existing electric power infrastructure was designed to supply power from large utility-owned generation sources to end-use customers with predictable load shapes. Tomorrow, the grid will face new smart grid challenges: increasing energy demands, capacity limitations, environmental constraints, varying load shapes, distributed generation and the deployment of new smart technologies. via Distribution Planning for a Continue reading →
San Diego Gas and Electric (SDG&E) has completed a new Energy Innovation Center that began construction in December of 2010. The center provides businesses and residential customers with the tools and resources they need to make smart energy decisions to reach a more sustainable energy future. Not surprisingly, the 27,000-square-foot center incorporated the latest sustainable Continue reading →
Showcasing true system interoperability, Elster ELT +2.94% , a leader in advanced Smart Metering and distribution monitoring, will present and exhibit its Smart Grid modernization solutions at DistribuTECH 2012 in San Antonio, Texas, January 24-26, 2012. “By enabling vital connections in the energy ecosystem, innovating smarter utility technology and providing true system interoperability, Elster is Continue reading →
Electric Ireland and Sustainable Energy Authority of Ireland (SEAI) have this week released full data sets from the recent smart metering trials for electricity customers. The purpose of the trials, which took place during 2009 and 2010 with over 5,000 Irish homes and businesses participating, was to assess the performance of smart meters, their impact Continue reading →
POWRtec, a California-based energy monitoring company, announced its intelligent smart meters allow users to remotely control devices, such as air conditioners, turning them on and off from any location. Smart meters allow customers to reduce energy waste significantly. Customers can benefit by making significant savings on the utility bill mainly from power draining devices. POWRtec’s Continue reading →
Officials from several Southern California utility companies joined federal, state and local authorities on Thursday morning to discuss how they could’ve responded more effectively to power outages in the wake of the Santa Ana wind storms. ..The company says it employed “smart meters” to pinpoint damaged places, but that the extent of all the destruction Continue reading →
More companies are purchasing Energy Management Software (EMS) to support energy and GHG reporting to top customers and investors and to reduce energy costs. The market for EMS products is tremendously varied and confusing. By prioritizing their needs against five common use cases, corporate managers can avoid the bewilderment caused when confronted with the hundreds Continue reading →
Reliant customers are learning what the smart energy future looks like with the Reliant e-Sense® Home Energy Monitor. More than 3,500 Reliant customers have received the free in-home display and the company is giving away 6,500 additional monitors to help customers make smarter energy decisions based on the unprecedented, near real-time information about their electricity Continue reading →
Idaho Power has finished the installation of about 500,000 “smart” electric meters for customers, wrapping up a three-year project. via IDAHO MOUNTAIN EXPRESS: Updated and breaking news.
Rather than building new power generation to meet the rising demand for energy, utilities are increasingly turning to the latest smart grid technology to help reduce energy use during peak consumption times. These programs will profoundly change how all American households and businesses think about and consume energy. Once invisible to most people, electricity consumption Continue reading →
EnerNOC, Inc. (NASDAQ: ENOC), the world’s leading provider of demand response applications and services, today announced that its DemandSMART? demand response network was dispatched on Monday, December 19, 2011 to address a capacity shortage in New England. The region’s Independent System Operator, ISO New England, called upon more than 1,300 of EnerNOC’s customer sites, from Continue reading →
Oklahoma Gas and Electric (OGE) has selected Silver Spring Networks’ end-to-end demand response (DR) solution to expand OGE’s peak-reduction programs to all customers in its service territory. via Silver Spring to provide price-based DR for OGE – FierceEnergy.
Oklahoma Gas and Electric (OGE), Oklahoma’s largest electric utility, serving more than 775,000 customers in Oklahoma and western Arkansas, has selected Silver Spring’s end-to-end demand response solution to expand OGE’s pioneering, smart grid-based peak-reduction programs to all customers in its service territory. via Oklahoma Gas and Electric Selects Silver Spring’s Demand Response Solution.
As 2011 draws to a close, TXU Energy takes a look back at some of the most significant trends that impacted Texas electricity customers this year, from extreme temperatures and electricity demand to innovative tools that help manage consumption and costs, and the ongoing risks of variable rate electricity pricing. via TXU Energy Reflects on Continue reading →
BC Hydro failed to notify customers who received new smart meters about how their personal information was being collected and used, B.C.’s privacy watchdog said Monday. via BC Hydro smart meter installs violating privacy: report – British Columbia – CBC News.
When it comes to connecting homeowners with the smart grid, San Diego Gas & Electric may be the most experimental utility in the country. Given the pressures it’s under, it pretty much has to be. Those pressures include a massive (1.4 million) smart electric meter deployment that’s supposed to be followed up by real-time (or Continue reading →
Time-based or dynamic pricing is a form of pricing where consumers are charged different rates for a service depending on the time of day, month, or even season. In some cases, customers can be given price information in real time. In the case of the smart grid, utilities can monitor the load on the grid Continue reading →
Elster announced today that Tennessee ‘s Bolivar Energy Authority (BEA) has selected the Elster EnergyAxis Smart Grid solution to deliver an advanced metering infrastructure (AMI) system, delivering improved operational efficiencies and empowering its electric customers to better manage energy usage and lower energy costs. via Bolivar Energy Authority Selects Elster for Smart Grid Deployment – Continue reading →
