United States utility giant Con Edison has released an animated video on the company’s Web site to promote the smart grid and to educate the public on the technologies being employed and deployed to modernize the electric grid such as self-healing capabilities, two-way data exchange between customers and utilities, and real-time information on energy use. Continue reading →
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The movement toward a cleaner, more efficient electrical grid has hit a wall recently. The first phase for most electric utilities has been to roll out thousands of smart meters — meters capable of wirelessly beaming energy-consumption data to utilities and consumer devices — as fast as they can to as many households as possible. Continue reading →
Last week my favorite southern city earned its nickname, “Hotlanta,” as the place was simply sizzling with one of the hottest topics these days: Smart Grid. It was the second stop in the six-cities-in-six-months tour that (in full disclosure) my company, Siemens, has been sponsoring. The goal of this tour is to educate the folks Continue reading →
Just as the bamboo-munching bears put a cute face on the campaign for endangered species, the digital devices known as smart meters have been hailed by experts as the interface to educating consumers about their electricity use as the nation aims to overhaul its grid and energy use. But the smart meter has not been Continue reading →
The disgruntled backlash over the installation of smart meters in a couple communities in the U.S. (currently Bakersfield, Calif., and Dallas, Texas) has rattled utilities, tech vendors and smart grid startups. In an attempt to start to create a better way to communicate with and educate consumers about smart grid technology, companies and utilities plan Continue reading →
“Smart Grid” may be a common enough term to folks in cleantech, but most people don’t know anything about it beyond notice that their utility is replacing their old dusty meters with digital smart meters. The lack of market education has led to backlashes and dead ends. But now a group of companies and organizations Continue reading →
Last week, the Obama administration introduced a proposal that every college student in the country should know about. It represents the nation’s first comprehensive federal program for clean energy education, and it is a critical step toward regaining American leadership in one of the most important industries of our time. via Innovate America: Educating the Continue reading →
With a vision to cut down the losses as well as disruptions in the power grid, and to meet the future challenges facing the power sector, the Ministry of Power, MDI and the private sector decided to come together to start a Smart Grid course at MDI, School of Energy management. MDI becomes the first Continue reading →
A recent survey concluded that in order for smart meters and smart grids to fulfill their potential, consumers need to be smarter about the emerging energy technologies. Chartwell’s Smart Grid Customer Engagement Research Council surveyed 1,500 utility customers in the United States and Canada and the majority of respondents claimed to have never heard of Continue reading →
