A couple of big players got tapped to supply the full-meal deal after running successful utility pilots. A company in India landed a $60 million contract to build substations in Iraq. Scroll down and over to page 2 for details on those deals and the rest of this week’s roster of smart grid wins. via Continue reading →
Itron hosted an inauguration ceremony to commemorate its first Smart Metering Lab and Knowledge Center in India, located at the Itron India headquarters in Noida. According to the company, the facility is a demonstration center “to showcase and demonstrate Itron’s smart metering and AMI solutions. It will benefit local utilities, government officials and other groups Continue reading →
Mahindra & Mahindra Ltd. 500520.BY -0.83% Monday introduced a new electric vehicle, e2o, in a bid to expand into the hybrid-vehicle segment which India’s government is trying to boost though investments and tax breaks. The four-seater hatchback powered by a lithium ion battery is priced at 596,000 rupees (about $11,000) at showrooms in New Delhi. It Continue reading →
Itron Inc. (ITRI), the largest U.S. maker of metering devices that save energy and cut waste, said smart meters installed in Mumbai reduced water losses by half. Smart meter use in India’s most populous city eliminated 50 percent of the 700 million liters (150 million gallons) a day of water that’s wasted or leaked by Continue reading →
In July last year an electricity grid failure plunged India into darkness, affecting about 20 States. As the country takes steps to improve its supply and grid system, Bindu N. Lohani, Vice-President, Sustainable Energy and Knowledge Management, Asian Development Bank (ADB), feels a smartgrid can be one way of improving efficiencies and integrating cleaner energy Continue reading →
Landis+Gyr, the world’s leading provider of smart grid and smart metering solutions, announced today that they have been selected by West Bengal State Electricity Distribution Company Limited (WBSEDCL) to provide more than 1.5 million digital electricity meters for their modernization and rural electrification program. This most recent award from WBSEDCL is believed to be the Continue reading →
With expertise in smart grids and over 30 years hands-on experience in the power industry, he has several successful enterprises to his credit. Presently the founder and managing director of Magnetar Venture, a fund aimed at fostering innovation in clean technologies in India, Reji Kumar Pillai is also president of the India Smart Grid Forum, Continue reading →
Electrical equipment maker Crompton Greaves is setting up an automation unit for producing smart grid devices, entering a market dominated by global biggies like Areva, Siemens, ABB, Legrand and Alstom. According to a press statement issued by the company, it is setting up a greenfield plant in Jigani Industrial Area, Bangalore, which will be operational Continue reading →
The India Smart Grid Forum has come out with a smart grid vision and road map, covering 3 five-year plans from 2012 to 2027. The ‘smart grid vision’ involves transforming the Indian power sector into a secure, adaptive, sustainable and digitally enabled ecosystem by 2027, that provides reliable and quality energy for all with active Continue reading →
It is no secret that the crux of India’s power problems lies in supply shortages. Power plants, many of them aging and many of them fueled by coal, cannot keep up with the country’s upwardly mobile population. Even with soaring demand for air conditioning and televisions, nearly a third of the country’s 1.2-billion-strong population lives Continue reading →
With the share of infirm renewable power growing fast in India’s electricity mix, maintaining grid discipline is going to be a serious challenge for system operators. But smart grid technology, a dynamic power management system, offers solutions. This is the reason the government is preparing road map for large-scale deployment of this technology in power Continue reading →
Top officials from India and the US are holding a series of meetings here to strengthen collaboration in the energy sector with special focus on mobilising clean and affordable sources for their requirements. The series of meetings that kicked off Tuesday would with culminate in US-India Energy Dialogue on September 28, to be co-chaired by Continue reading →
Recent blackouts in the U.S. and India should serve as a wake-up call to an increasingly networked world. Power outages are no longer a local problem. Mission-critical websites and data centers are increasingly likely to be located in blackout zones. Today, a local blackout can become a global business catastrophe. That was one of the Continue reading →
A few hours of relentless rain and a city goes under. A couple of leaks in the water pipeline and parts of it are left without water. A vehicle breaks down in the middle of a busy road and there’s a traffic gridlock within minutes. This is more or less the life story of India’s Continue reading →
At the end of Q2 2012, China continued to dominate the worldwide renewable energy market, with Germany and the U.S. nose-to-nose in second place, and India and the U.K. just behind, according to Ernst & Young’s latest quarterly Renewable Energy Country Attractiveness Indices (CAI) report. Activities centered strongly around the smart grid. via Global smart Continue reading →
“I feel that during the next couple of years India will be able to lay down the basic foundation for Smart Grid implementation,” says Dr Sergio Rossi, Head of Smart Grid and Peripherals, Infineon Technologies AG via Creating Smart Power Distribution Network | eGov Magazine.
India’s massive grid blackouts this month have been the subject of much debate and much concern — and from a clean power perspective, highlights a market where there is much opportunity. But there are actually a good deal of projects in India that are already focused on installing solar projects, both for rural villages and Continue reading →
Did you know that the amount of energy consumed in the world doubles every 20 years? Knowing how the world is running out of its energy sources, there is little chance that we would meet the demand in future. This demand for power is just one face of the problem; the other serious issue is Continue reading →
Recent blackouts in India and parts of the U.S. are fresh reminders that grid infrastructure revitalization and improvement are truly global challenges. Service disruptions are another stressor to the global economy, as they produce economic losses through lost business and added costs to energy. According to a recent report from SBI Energy, worldwide responses to Continue reading →
The recent widespread power failures in India have highlighted a number of problems that exist in the electrical grid there. A report from IMS Research (recently acquired by IHS Inc. (NYSE:IHS)) on Distribution Automation Equipment – 2012 Edition analyzes the regional differences between distribution automation adoption globally, including developing countries such as India, and what Continue reading →
