Smart Grid Consumer Collaborative (SGCC), a nonprofit specializing in research and education on smart grid consumer engagement, announced that the second wave of findings from its Smart Grid Consumer Pulse research study will be released at the SGCC Consumer Symposium to be held January 23, 2012 at DistribuTECH in San Antonio. The findings, developed through Continue reading →
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Even though research concludes the global AMI market is poised to grow by nearly 20 percent by 2015, deployment has been hindered by high costs and complex installations Glen Canyon Corporation has introduced its NEXGEN family of products for the Smart Meter and Advanced Metering Infrastructure (AMI) market, designed to mitigate the typical high initial Continue reading →
GTM Research is pleased to unveil our latest research report, The Networked Grid 150: The End-to-End Smart Grid Vendor Ecosystem Profiles and Rankings. This report represents the culmination of a GTM Research effort to profile the leading players in the emerging smart grid market. This work was originally compiled solely for internal research purposes. Later, Continue reading →
One of the world’s largest banks, London-based HSBC (NYSE: HBC) issued last September a very interesting research report entitled “Sizing the Climate Economy”. At less than 60 pages, it’s an excellent read for those interested in the future growth of the advanced energy economy. There are really too many highlights to capture all of them in this Continue reading →
Here’s the good news: research firm IHS (formerly iSupply) says global smart meter sales will grow from 20.5 million this year to 62 million by 2016, while revenues from the chips inside them will double from $505.6 million to $1.1 billion in the same time. via Smart Meter Sales to Triple, Chips Inside to Double, Continue reading →
Just before Christmas, I wrote a piece on three smart-grid trends I’ll be watching in 2012 and touched on microgrids as one of them. Lo and behold, cleantech research firm Pike Research is out with a new report this week suggesting that microgrids are poised for a breakthrough year. via Market dynamics driving more companies, Continue reading →
UCLA’s highly regarded Smart Grid Energy Research Center (SMERC) has partnered with the Korea Institute of Energy Research (KIER) to collaborate on research and the development of new technologies with the goal of developing a strong smart grid at the international level. via Smart Grid: UCLA partners with Korea on smart grid R&D.
GE Global Research, the research and development division of General Electric (NYSE: GE), has received a $1.36 million federal grant to study and improve the efficiency of electric vehicles (EVs). Researchers are studying the impact of EV grid integration activities on homes and the electric grid. According to GE researchers, charging electric vehicles requires one Continue reading →
The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) has awarded nearly $7 million in research and development funding that will help to reduce the current costs of electric-vehicle (EV) chargers by 50% over the next three years. With support from the DOE, manufacturers in California, New Jersey, New York and Pennsylvania will work to improve the development Continue reading →
Imagine a home in which every appliance — computer, television, washing machine, refrigerator, air conditioner — can carry on a minute-by-minute “conversation” with the local power grid, allowing the devices to power down when the price of electricity is at a premium and to consume energy when it is cheapest. via Building the smart grid Continue reading →
In Dustin Hoffman’s The Graduate, the future resided in “just one word” – plastics. Today, the future would appear to be double barrelled: smart meters. According to a report by Northeast Group LLC, the market for smart meters in emerging market countries alone could hit $49 billion by 2020. The Washington, D.C. based research firm has Continue reading →
A separate set of semiconductors that may be the key to smart-grid applications could be a $1 billion business by 2015, according a new report. Scottsdale-based technology research firm In-Stat said the smart-grid applications will fuel what is known as the ZigBee technology, with about 71 percent of revenues coming from the sector. via Semiconductors Continue reading →
Several key smart grid areas will experience growth in 2012, according to predictions made by IDC Energy Insights. These fields include smart meters, distribution automation (DA), plug-in electric vehicles (PEVs) and lithium-ion batteries. The predictions, which were presented by the global market research and analysis firm during a webcast Tuesday, include the following… via Renew Continue reading →
These are interesting times for Brewster McCracken. As executive director of the clean energy research consortium Pecan Street Inc., McCracken is helping drive research into how consumer smart grids and smart grid-enabled systems should interact. via Pecan Street’s McCracken keeps up drumbeat for clean energy, smart grids.
September was a bad month for electricity in California. On September 8, a failed high-voltage transmission line from Arizona left nearly 1.4 million without electricity in San Diego County and surrounds for an entire day. That same week, the state’s legislature defeated an extension of its existing tax on utility bills, AB724, that had been Continue reading →
Clad in a total of 5,200 shimmering blue solar panels, Sanyo’s Kasai Green Energy Park compound makes even the largest rooftop PV systems look like small potatoes. Located in Kasai, Japan, the cutting edge green research facility is decked out in Panasonic’s HIT bifacial PV panels like Christmas lights on a very enthusiastic holiday decorator’s Continue reading →
The Agency for Science, Technology and Research’s (A*STAR) Experimental Power Grid Centre (EPGC) has opened in Singapore to support Singapore’s goal of a smart energy economy through cutting-edge research and research collaborations with local and international partners. The research efforts are intended to develop future commercialized energy technologies in electrical power networks, energy distribution and Continue reading →
J.D. Power and Associates, along with SmartEnergy IP — a research and consulting organization designed to communicate the benefits of the Smart Grid — revealed Wednesday the speaker lineup for their Smart EV Executive Leadership Forum to be held Nov. 7th in Washington, D.C., at the Hyatt Regency Washington on Capitol Hill. via Auto Remarketing Continue reading →
The Internet of energy is rapidly approaching. According to research firm Berg Insight, there will be 602.7 million smart meters installed throughout the world by 2o16. That represents a compound annual growth rate of 26.6 percent between 2010 and 2016. via There will be 600M smart meters by 2016 — Cleantech News and Analysis.
A Cornell research team has received a four-year, $1.9 million grant from the National Science Foundation to develop a system for computation and information sharing when designing a “smart” electrical grid. The team, led by principal investigator Lang Tong, the Irwin and Joan Jacobs Professor of Engineering, is exploring the computational aspects of how to Continue reading →
