Incentives in Canada have resulted in so much solar energy that only a move to smart grid can use it all. So claims National Instruments (NI), which is to provide monitoring and control equipment. via Only smart grid can rescue wasted solar in Canada | SMART Group.
The first Zero Net Energy newly built home is officially for sale, offered by KB Home’s Rancho Santalina development in San Marcos, California. San Diego Gas & Electric (SDG&E) joined KB Home and other partners to introduce the new ZeroHouse 2.0 to the public. SDG&E served as the energy advisor, working directly with engineers at Continue reading →
ThinkEco, maker of the Modlet Saver Plug, recently announced a partnership that will integrate its cloud-based energy monitoring platform with the Carrier ComfortChoice Touch thermostat. Carrier specializes in high-technology heating, air-conditioning and refrigeration solutions. Integration of the two technologies will allow utility customers to enroll central and window air conditioners into the same energy-efficiency or demand-response program via Continue reading →
Utilities across the U.S. are beginning to turn to transformer technologies to improve distribution reliability and efficiency as well as customer service and operating costs. In addition, more intelligent transformers will play a key role in enabling other smart grid applications such as power quality monitoring, closed-loop volt/VAR control, improved outage detection, and theft reduction. Continue reading →
AS HURRICANE SANDY MADE LANDFALL along the New Jersey shore at 8 p.m. on Monday, Oct. 29, its storm surge and 80 mph winds submerged power substations and underground power lines, knocked down trees, flattened homes, ignited fires and spread chaos. Communication systems and transportation were severely compromised, if not stopped. Utilities in the storm’s Continue reading →
With Super Bowl-scale grid failure making headlines in the U.S. this week, attention has turned to smart grid technologies that offer electric utilities greater reliability, efficiency and predictability. While the cause of the Super Bowl outage continues to be debated, GTM Research today publishes its latest smart grid market report on transformer monitoring; the smart Continue reading →
Cooper Power Systems, a subsidiary of Cooper Industries PLC, has introduced its CL-7 regulator controls. Available in both single- and multi-phase versions, the smart-grid-ready CL-7 regulator controls are able to easily integrate into an existing system, providing monitoring, communications and voltage regulation of all three phases, according to the company. via Renew Grid: Content / Continue reading →
Silver Spring Networks, a leading networking platform and solutions provider for smart energy networks, today announced a strategic partnership with Streetlight.Vision, the leader in streetlight control and monitoring software, to deliver a Smart City solution enabling operators to more efficiently and reliably operate their lighting networks while creating a city-wide IPv6-based communications and monitoring network Continue reading →
The University of California, Berkeley, got a $4 million grant for three years’ work on electric power grid monitoring. UC Berkeley’s California Institute for Energy and Environment, or CIEE, will oversee the research, working with Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory and the UC Center for Information Research. via ARPA-E gives UC Berkeley $4 million for smart Continue reading →
In my previous blog post I discussed how smart meters will be supplanted by increasingly intelligent electronic devices that will make possible new and better grid monitoring and control. Now I want to discuss the concept of enhanced grid management via distributed smart metering. While added functionality is a plus, the journey we’re now on Continue reading →
In a deal that aims to accelerate time to market for products based on its disaggregation technology, Navetas Energy Management has signed a partnership agreement with Texas Instruments (TI). via Navetas, Texas Instruments sign energy monitoring partnership.
In response to another press report that its so-called “smart meters” threatened the privacy of its customers, the New Hampshire Electric Cooperative (NHEC) this week again insisted that meters being installed throughout its service area are incapable of collecting or transmitting personal information and buttressed its statement with a technical report from the manufacturer. On Continue reading →
Itron, Inc. (NASDAQ:ITRI) announced today it has expanded its capabilities with a dedicated meter for the solar market. The revenue-grade solar meter, which utilizes an Itron cellular communication module, is ideal for monitoring the energy production of residential and commercial solar photovoltaic (PV) systems. via LIBERTY LAKE, Wash.: Itron Enters into Solar Market with Extended Continue reading →
One green tech test bed neighborhood in Texas is now offering up its first insights to the researchers monitoring it. It turns out that people tend to plug in their electric cars at the same time they turn on everything else electronic in their houses. If more people own electric cars in the future, such Continue reading →
On-Ramp Wireless has published the results of field trials for below-ground distribution automation, including outage detection and distribution transformer monitoring. The project’s $2.1 million cost was funded by the United States Department of Energy (DOE). The demonstrated performance results show that On-Ramp’s solution exceeds DOE’s stated 2016 Smart Grid Performance Target to improve System Average Continue reading →
ZigBee is increasingly becoming a strong solution for the new smart home, providing a reliable and robust connection between home systems like air conditioning and heating, home security, door and window locks, home health monitoring, and energy use monitoring and management, as well as in home entertainment. Various flavors of ZigBee are being used to Continue reading →
Texas Instruments Incorporated (TI) (NASDAQ: TXN) today introduced a new line of analog front ends (AFEs) for power monitoring and control of smart e-meters. The new ADS131E08 family is available with 8, 6 or 4 channels and in 16- or 24-bit resolution. The devices offer high integration and performance, along with the industry’s lowest power Continue reading →
Connected entertainment will drive revenues in the so-called “smart home” market to nearly $60 billion by 2017 – up from just $25 billion in 2012. That’s the finding of Juniper Research in a new report examining the smart home market and the financial opportunities derived from connected devices and service models. Beyond entertainment, smart monitoring Continue reading →
There’s always been talk about the updated “Smart Grid,” ranging from talks of the U.S. experimenting with changing the line/mains frequency to modulate Internet communication over it, to better energy monitoring and management at the micro and macro scale. How much of it is hype, and how much of it is a reality? via The Continue reading →
GridSense, an Acorn Energy (NASDAQ: ACFN) company that develops and markets advanced monitoring solutions for the electric power industry, has announced that a California utility will use its LineIQTM solution to measure the impact of photovoltaic (PV) generated power as it enters the utility grid. Many states are mandating increases in the percentage of power Continue reading →
