The city of Leesburg is modernizing the city’s electric grid with advanced technologies designed to power 21st century economic growth, increase energy efficiency, improve power reliability and empower its consumers. GE’s Grid IQ(TM): Solutions as a Service offering, an integrated grid modernization solution specifically designed for small to mid-sized utilities, will enable the city to Continue reading →
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Take this statistic with a grain of salt. Silicon Valley has seen its so-called “smart grid” sector boom over the past decade, with a 138-percent growth in business activity, compared to average regional economic growth of 82 percent, and a 129-percent growth in employment, compared to the region’s anemic 8-percent job growth across all sectors. Continue reading →
Smart Metering and Smart Grids are currently hot topics in the Middle East mainly driven by potential risks of supply and demand imbalances of electricity, which may impact the economic growth of the region say experts at A.T. Kearney, a leading global management consultancy. via Smart technologies have great saving potential for GCC utilities sector Continue reading →
