Telvent TLVT +1.55% , the leading real-time IT solutions and information provider for a sustainable world, announced today at the Microsoft Global Utilities Summit, that its alignment with Microsoft has created more efficient and cost-effective smart grid solutions for utility companies. via Telvent Announces Efficient, Cost-Effective Smart Grid Solutions for Utility Companies Worldwide – MarketWatch.
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Methinks you have all read about the recent decisions of Google and Microsoft to back off investments in cloud-based services designed to help consumers managed their home electricity consumption. Google blinked first, then Microsoft. Both cited poor consumer adoption in their decisions. I just think they are impatient. via In home energy management, progress despite Continue reading →
Sometimes innovative companies can be a little too ahead of their time. Google and Microsoft are arguably two of the most influential and innovative companies in modern history. Part of their success has been to capitalize on emerging trends by anticipating consumer needs and wants. So it was not terribly surprising when both companies introduced Continue reading →
According to a developer of Hohm, Microsoft’s free power-monitoring service, the cause of its demise can be attributed to organizational decisions made under the Windows Embedded Business segment. Microsoft blogger M.J. Miller explained today in a blog that Microsoft decided to end its Hohm online power-savings software utility because “it didn’t fit into the Windows Continue reading →
Last week we learned that both Microsoft and Google were dropping their home energy management efforts (Microsoft Hohm and Google Powermeter). So now the postmortem. If we were making an electric power version of the film Dumb and Dumber, which company would play Dumb? And which one would be Dumber? via Smart Grid: Who is Continue reading →
Internet giants Google and Microsoft have officially given their web-based energy management tools the Donald Trump (as in, “You’re Fired!”), and last week, announced they would be closing them down in the near future. I’ve already dug into a few reasons why I think Google’s PowerMeter tool and Microsoft’s Hohm app didn’t make the cut. But there are Continue reading →
Microsoft is pulling its Hohm energy management platform, but has signaled that it will concentrate instead on commercial and industrial energy applications. The IT giant announced on the Hohm blog that it will be discontinuing the service effective May 31, 2012. The move comes just days after Google announced that it will retire its PowerMeter Continue reading →
First Google kills its PowerMeter energy monitor this week. Now Microsoft has announced it will curtail its Hohm energy monitoring/energy saving recommendations site, apparently because not many people were using it. Hohm will be available to users until May 31, 2012. And boy, the “tributes” are rolling in—and I use that term facetiously. Abject ridicule, some of Continue reading →
Earlier this week I had the pleasure of participating in a panel discussion concerning visions for the Cloud in the advancement and development of the smart grid from a governmental and industry policy perspective. The setting was perfect, in Microsoft’s new Washington DC Office, and the event brought together a very knowledgeable and experienced group Continue reading →
The Microsoft Worldwide Utility Industry Survey 2011 shows only an 8% increase in the number of utilities moving past smart grid planning and into implementation. The survey also shows a general industry expectation that budgets to support these efforts are on the rise. via Microsoft Releases Worldwide Utility Industry Survey | SmartGridElectronics.Net.
Microsoft will spend less time at Hohm and more at work. The software behemoth is currently working with partners to figure out a strategy for software and services for managing energy consumption in commercial buildings, according to Rob Bernard, the company’s chief environmental strategist. via Microsoft Moving into Building Management, Demand Response : Greentech Media.
Telvent (NASDAQ: TLVT), the leading real-time IT solutions and information provider for a sustainable world, announced today that it will work with Microsoft as a globally managed independent software vendor (ISV) to create more efficient smart grid solutions for the utility industry. Telvent and Microsoft will work together to leverage key aspects of their respective Continue reading →
More than 60 million U.S. homeowners, by simply typing in their address, can now see how their energy efficiency compares with others in their neighborhood or state. Microsoft Hohm, a free online service that gives tips on how to boost home efficiency, announced Wednesday a new feature that scores homes nationwide. Its estimates are based Continue reading →
Ever wished you could find out whether your eco-obsessed neighbor is really an energy hog? Enter Microsoft’s Hohm Scores, an online tool that allows you to view energy efficiency data about a specific home address. There are already 60 million homes listed in the database, and results can be compared to averages of other homes Continue reading →
One idea behind home energy conservation posits that the more data people have about their own energy use, the better equipped they are to make changes that conserve energy. That’s one of the ideas behind smart meters—if a smart meter tells you that a television left in standby mode consumes 10 percent of your daily Continue reading →
Microsoft says its Hohm website will help you understand the energy consumption of your home. (Get it? “Hohm”?) But what’s the business model? What’s in it for Microsoft — and how will this really help the smart grid? I spoke with Hohm project manager Troy Batterberry about how the Redmond, Wash.-based company’s new site is Continue reading →
General Motors’ announcement this week that it plans to link up with Google to provide a set of location-based services to owners of the upcoming electric vehicle the Chevy Volt comes hot on the heels of Ford laying out plans to work with Microsoft to manage electric vehicle charging. Google and Microsoft have been competing on Continue reading →
Ford Motor Company has teamed up with Microsoft to help make the “smart grid” a reality. When Ford’s all-electric Focus goes on the market late next year, customers will also be able to buy a Microsoft program that connects that car with the electric company and the home. via MICHIGAN: Ford, Microsoft, Unveil “Smart Grid” Continue reading →
Utilities around the world are still struggling to understand and implement new technology needed to make electrical grids cleaner and more efficient. Only 8 percent of them worldwide have finished rolling out smart meters and other equipment under the banner of “Smart Grid,” according to new survey data collected by Microsoft. Completed Smart Grid deployments Continue reading →
John Arnold, managing director and Larry Cochrane, industry technology strategist of Microsoft’s worldwide power and utilities industry division, explain the software behind smart grid systems. Smart grid is the hot topic on every utility executive’s mind around the world. The European Commission estimates that US€1 trillion will be spent improving Europe’s electricity network and generation Continue reading →
