US home appliance makers are urging federal officials to take action to recognize the benefits of smart appliances and speed up development of the smart electricity grid. The announcement from the Association of Home Appliance Manufacturers (AHAM) followed the release of an action plan from the US Department of Energy (DOE) and the Federal Energy Continue reading →
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More than 356,000 homes and businesses across northern, central, and southern are scheduled to get smart meters as part of four projects involving Cleco Power, Entergy New Orleans and the municipal utilities for Ruston and Lafayette. The deployments are funded in part through a United States Department of Energy grant. Meter installations are expected to Continue reading →
The federal government has a goal of putting 1 million electric vehicles on U.S. roads by 2015, and the U.S. Department of Energy forecasts that by 2020, we will have an astonishing 100 million hybrid or electric cars on the country’s roads. The city of Naperville is doing its part to support these goals by Continue reading →
The United States Agency for International Development (USAID), working with the U.S. Department of Energy (USDOE) to cooperate with Russia on energy efficiency and smart grids, is supporting efforts to share experience and best practices among U.S. and Russian municipalities and utilities. This month, a Memorandum of Understanding was signed in San Diego and Belgorod, Continue reading →
Millions of electric cars won’t faze the grid. The current electric grid can support a massive switch where half of the vehicles on the road would run on battery power, according to the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers. That could mean an annual reduction of some 70 billion gallons of gasoline burned by U.S. vehicles, based on Department of Continue reading →
New York State Gas & Electric is working with the federal Department of Energy on an energy-efficient energy storage system. On Nov. 30, NYSEG executed a $29.6 million cooperative funding agreement with the Department of Energy as part of the agency’s Smart Grid Demonstration Program, launching a study of an environmentally-friendly compressed air energy storage Continue reading →
The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) calls it a system that is cleaner and more efficient, reliable, resilient and responsive. We call it the smart grid. Whatever you call it, Secretary of Energy Steven Chu has announced more than $19 million for five projects aimed at optimizing the nation’s electric grid. via Feds Funds $19M Continue reading →
On Wednesday, the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) announced that five smart grid projects would receive more than $19 million in funding. The projects selected for these awards will help prepare the nation’s grid infrastructure to better handle clean energy technology. via DOE: $19 million for smart grid projects | MNN – Mother Nature Network.
Several San Diego companies working on smart-grid projects are benefiting from federal grants announced this week. San Diego-based On-Ramp Wireless is getting $2.1 million for a $2.8 million project to build and test a wireless sensor that can monitor underground circuits. It will test the sensors on distribution grids operated by San Diego Gas & Continue reading →
When Congress passed the landmark stimulus bill in 2009, more than $90 billion was targeted at clean energy — the largest investment of federal dollars in the energy sector ever. Nearly $3 billion was awarded to the Bay Area from the Department of Energy alone. The infusion of money came at a critical juncture, filling Continue reading →
In a recent letter, the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE), Office of Electricity Delivery and Energy Reliability (OE) recognized the efforts of Energetics’ Smart Grid Investment Grant (SGIG) support team. Client Donald Macdonald cited the team’s exceptional performance under tremendous pressure, saying that the team has “materially contributed to the success of the SGIG program” Continue reading →
The New York State Public Service Commission (Commission) today voted to grant Consolidated Edison Company of New York, Inc.’s request to establish a surcharge to collect certain costs related to smart grid projects approved under the American Reinvestment and Recovery Act (ARRA) of 2009 by the Commission and the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE). The Continue reading →
IBM (NYSE: IBM) today announced that it is the systems integrator for NV Energy’s Advanced Service Delivery project that includes smart grid technology, advanced meter infrastructure and meter data management. NV Energy, serving 1.4 million electric and gas customers in Nevada, is leading a comprehensive deployment of smart grid technologies, with support from the Department Continue reading →
Avista and other partners are embarking on the next phase of a smart grid demonstration project in Pullman, now that a final funding agreement is in place. The project is part of the $178 million Pacific Northwest Smart Grid Demonstration Project. Funding partners are the U.S. Department of Energy, Battelle, Bonneville Power Administration, 11 utilities and Continue reading →
Enspiria Solutions, a Black and Veatch company, will provide systems integration support for Westar Energy’s SmartStar program. The program will provide innovative services that directly benefit Westar’s electric customers in Lawrence, Kan. Westar was recently awarded a Smart Grid Investment Grant by the U.S. Department of Energy to develop its smart grid project in the Continue reading →
A new report from DOE outlines spending and market share trends in the smart grid arena, and highlights $2.75 billion in annual product sales in three top smart grid categories: AMI, demand response and distribution grid management. The research study report, titled the 2010 U.S. Smart Grid Vendor Ecosystem Report, also yielded up some interesting, Continue reading →
Working in energy technology one can’t possibly ignore the transformative role that the current Administration is having on the promotion of clean technology. We have been lucky to have a window into some of the great work happening at the Department of Energy as the agency commissioned the Cleantech Group to produce a new Smart Grid research Continue reading →
The US Department of Energy today spent $30.4 million on cybersecurity projects it says will go a long way towards addressing the nation’s electric grid cybersecurity issues. These new projects are in addition to the $3.4 billion in stimulus grants to electric utilities got last year for over 100 Smart Grid modernization projects. via US Continue reading →
Contractors at Cal State Fullerton will be busy over the next couple months calibrating and preparing to fire up a new campus power plant, which is packed with the latest in energy efficient technology. The plant is slated to be fully operational late this fall, and it embodies many of the goals that electric utilities Continue reading →
Toyota is moving forward with its plan to dole out a small number of Prius Plug-in Hybrids (PHV) in the United States for testing this year, with Boulder, Colorado being the latest site chosen for a field study beginning this month. The company is supplying 18 PHVs to the University of Colorado’s Renewable and Sustainable Continue reading →
