A £54m project that helps change how we consume electricity by avoiding peak times is growing in strength after it was joined by the UK’s largest regional network of electric vehicle charging points. At first glance, the Customer-Led Network Revolution sounds a little like a campaigning group. However, it is in part funded by Ofgem’s Continue reading →
Whole system modelling and simulation of a V2G enabled power network facilitated through both the integration of a digitally controlled µController based bi-directional charger with embedded GPRS communications and the development of a V2G management/simulation software package. via Vehicle To Grid (V2G) Implementation for Integrated Bi-Directional Chargers | University of Southampton.
The build out of public charging stations across America has been nothing short of phenomenal. From a few hundred nearly-abandoned charge stations in California, hold-overs from the 1990s, the network of new charging stations has exploded in the last two years to 6,000 and is expected to reach 7,400 units by year’s end. In April Continue reading →
Nokia Siemens Networks’ Fuel Cell solution and Liquid Applications have won the Emerging Technologies award under the ‘Green Telecom and Smart Energy Solutions’ and ‘Wide Area Network’ categories at CTIA Wireless 2013. Developed jointly by Nokia Siemens Networks and Ballard Power Systems, Fuel Cells enable operators to optimize network downtime in case of a commercial power Continue reading →
The Cisco GridBlocks Architecture continues to provide competitive value. Cisco spent a lot of time and money to construct a layered architecture that marries the communications network with the electric power network. Now they are using it not just to help clients but also to underpin their own strategy. (By the way, Microsoft has just updated Continue reading →
Cisco has long said that it wants to network the world’s electricity grids much like it has networked the internet at large. But connecting computers, smartphones and other Internet Protocol (IP)-capable devices is a bit simpler than connecting power grid equipment that’s built around decades-old technology, as Cisco and other smart grid networking contenders have Continue reading →
What’s a harried grid operator to make of the smart grid as it exists today? So far, we’ve got a lot of smart meters (with or without connections to grid network operations centers), a lot of transmission and distribution grid systems built as one-off, siloed solutions, and perhaps some demand response programs to get power Continue reading →
he Cisco GridBlocks Architecture continues to provide competitive value. Cisco spent a lot of time and money to construct a layered architecture that marries the communications network with the electric power network. Now they are using it not just to help clients but also to underpin their own strategy. (By the way, Microsoft has just updated Continue reading →
Britain’s largest ‘smart grid’ project has joined forces with an electric vehicle (EV) recharging network to monitor the impact EVs have on electricity networks and support the UK’s transition to a low carbon economy. The £54m Customer-Led Network Revolution (CLNR) project and Charge Your Car—the UK’s largest regional network of EV charge points—will work together Continue reading →
If engineers at Clemson University and the Georgia Institute of Technology have their way, the power grid of tomorrow will be governed by a network of living neurons, grown in a Petri dish, and attached to a computer. For now, the researchers have successfully used a simulation of the power grid to “teach” the living Continue reading →
Portugal’s electricity network operator announced that renewable energy supplied 70 percent of total consumption in the first quarter of this year. This increase was largely due to favorable weather conditions resulting in increased wind and water flow, as well as lower demand. Portuguese citizens are using less energy and using sources that never run out Continue reading →
Wind power is gaining speed. The California Independent System Operator Corporation (ISO) reports a new record was set when turbines spinning within the ISO power grid combined to produce a new record of 4,196 megawatts (MW) at 6:44 p.m. on Sunday. The ISO is the main operator for the state’s high voltage network, serving about Continue reading →
Globally, utilities have been deploying communication solutions based on Internet Protocol/Multiprotocol Label Switching (MPLS) technology to support their transmission grid communications. This enables the efficient support of new smart grid applications that tend to be Internet Protocol-based, along with existing operational traffic such as supervisory control and data acquisition (SCADA) and teleprotection on a single Continue reading →
NEC Asia Pacific Pte Ltd, a leading information technology and network solutions provider and systems integrator, plans to drive the adoption of its smart energy solutions and services across Asia Pacific. NEC Asia Pacific, based here as regional headquarters, is a wholly-owned unit of NEC Corp, Japan. via BERNAMA – NEC To Drive Adoption Of Continue reading →
Say the words Smart Grid, and many people will think first of the new electric meter that recently appeared outside their home. But ask a power engineer, and she will talk about the most profound change in electricity distribution since AC conquered DC. The Smart Grid will take the international power network from a collection Continue reading →
Ambient Corporation (AMBT), provider of a secure, flexible, and scalable communications and applications platform, today announced that all of the Ambient Smart Grid® Node family is now certified on the Verizon Wireless 4G LTE network. For the first time, a high-speed, high-bandwidth communications network is now available to connect mission-critical utility and M2M smart grid Continue reading →
The Piedmont Municipal Power Agency (PMPA) has chosen Tantalus to implement a new smart grid network. Raleigh, North Carolina-based Tantalus will provide its TUNet (Tantalus Utility Network) to PMPA, a consortium of ten municipal electric utilities in northwest South Carolina. Looking to leverage and expand on the functionality of its existing smart meter network and Continue reading →
Landis+Gyr and Indianapolis Power & Light Co. (IPL) announced the two companies have reached agreement on an extension of their existing network management agreement for the utility’s advanced metering network that has been in place since 1997. via Indianapolis Power & Light to use Landis+Gyr smart grid network – Electric Light & Power.
Scarcely noticed in the wake of the much-discussed spat between Tesla CEO Elon Musk and New York Times reporter John Broder was the opening last week in Estonia of the world’s first nationwide network of fast chargers for electric vehicles (EVs). The network of 165 DC (direct current) quick-charging stations, produced and installed by Swiss Continue reading →
Landis+Gyr and Indianapolis Power & Light Co. have reached agreement on an extension of their existing network management agreement for the utility’s advanced metering network which has been in place since 1997. As part of the agreement, Landis+Gyr will migrate the network to its two-way Gridstream solution, allowing IPL to deploy the latest advanced meters Continue reading →
