ESSEN, Germany, Feb. 3, 2012 /PRNewswire/ – Elster (NYSE: ELT) announced today that the company will be showcasing solutions at the upcoming E-world conference which underscore Elster’s commitment to the implementation of Germany’s new data protection profile, as developed by the Federal Office for Information Security (BSI) at the request of Germany’s Federal Ministry of Economics and Technology Continue reading →
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On Monday, Siemens AG announced it will buy RuggedCom Inc, a maker of data communications networks systems, for about $381 million in cash, to improve access to markets in North America and the Asia-Pacific region. RuggedCom (Ontario, Canada), which had revenues of around $94 million last year and employs 360 people, makes heavy-duty routers and Continue reading →
The German government has commissioned a study into the technical and regulatory advances needed to enable development of a European electricity supergrid. International certification organisation TÜV SÜD will conduct the wide-ranging project, which is being funded by the Bundestag’s Office of Technology Assessment. via Germany funds study of key European supergrid enablers – Innovation – Continue reading →
Italy recently became the fourth nation to pledge to phase out nuclear power since Japan’s Fukushima disaster. Italy accomplished this feat by a popular referendum, soon after Germany did the same in its legislature (Bundestag). Switzerland has also agreed to a phase-out and Japan itself has agreed to phase out much of its nuclear capacity Continue reading →
German Chancellor Angela Merkel announced on 30 May that Germany, the world’s fourth-largest economy and Europe’s biggest, would shutter all of its 17 nuclear power plants between 2015 and 2022, an extraordinary commitment, given that they currently produce about 28% of the country’s electricity. via Germany sets aside 130bn dollars for renewable energy to replace Continue reading →
The utility company RheinEnergie plans to use Cuculus’ ZONOS platform to support its rollout of 30,000 smart meters, one of the largest-yet deployments in Germany. via Rollout of 30,000 smart meters one of Germany’s largest yet | Energy.
Devashree Saha is a senior policy analyst in the Metropolitan Policy Program at the Brookings Institution. Earlier this year she co-authored a report on the clean economy. Over email, she tells the New York Forum why this industry matters, and — with China and Germany taking the lead — ponders its future in the US. NYF: Hopes Continue reading →
Germany is one of the first countries already rolling out a nation-wide switch to a so called smart grid, but first experiences and studies show that the high expectations regarding cost and energy savings are not being met. Since the beginning of 2010, all new buildings in Germany have to be equipped with smart meters, Continue reading →
Smart energy meters, which accurately track energy consumption, offer major benefits to both customers and companies: they can detect service outage, the unauthorized use of electricity and change the maximum amount of electricity that a customer can demand. TechNavio Insights announces this week the launch of the report ‘Smart Energy Meters Market in Germany 2009-2013.’ Continue reading →
Reportlinker.com announces that a new market research report related to the Energy industry is available in its catalogue. More information regarding this report:Smart Energy Meters Market in Germany 2009-2013… The report by TechNavio Insights forecasts the size of the smart energy meters market in Germany over the period 2009-2013. Further, it discusses the key market trends, Continue reading →
