Each Friday, SGCC hand-selects top consumer, smart grid news from around the web in our weekly e-news, Smart Grid: Above the Fold. via Smart Grid Above the Fold: 6/7/13 | Smart Grid Consumer Collaborative.
The State Grid Corporation of China (SGCC) is building a smart-grid project using passive optical networking (PON) technology, which could not only help it deliver electricity more efficiently across the country, but also turn it into China’s next broadband service provider. Technology Review reports that the SGCC has connected around 86,000 premises to its smart grid so Continue reading →
The opportunity is ripe in 2013 for consumer outreach and education about the value and benefits a smart grid can bring, according to the Smart Grid Consumer Collaborative (SGCC)from its research carried out during 2012. “We’ve found that once consumers are educated about smart grid, they are supportive of it,” said SGCC executive director Patty Continue reading →
How does an electric power utility respond to the new reality of the empowered consumer? Experts will tell you that the right customer strategy combined with the right analytics can turn your customers into loyal advocates. Learn more about best practices in engaging electric power customers via the replays of our Sept. 25, 2012 webinar Continue reading →
Once a year, Accenture brings together its top energy and utility clients for two days of executive level dialogue and learning. This year featured an address by Yang Qing, Executive Vice President of State Grid Corporation of China(SGCC). With 1 billion users and 1.6 million employees, SGCC is certainly the world’s biggest utility. In certain Continue reading →
The Smart Grid Consumer Collaborative (SGCC), a nonprofit organization that supports smart grid technologies and initiatives, now has 70 members, representing an increase of 40% since January. “We’ve gained a balanced representation of members from for-profit and nonprofit sectors,” says Patty Durand, executive director of the SGCC. via Renew Grid: Content / FYI / Smart Continue reading →
The Smart Grid Consumer Collaborative announced the appointment of Patty Durand as its full-time executive director. In a long-planned transition, a former Georgia Institute of Technology Smart Grid and Energy Research leader will take over from Jesse Berst, Managing Director of GlobalSmartEnergy, an internationally recognized research and consulting firm, who has acted as the organization’s Continue reading →
Continuing its work to bring together all stakeholders to advance a modern, consumer-friendly grid, the Smart Grid Consumer Collaborative (SGCC) will host its annual symposium – Partnering for Progress – on Jan. 31, 2011 at the San Diego Convention Center. The half-day event will bring together top utilities, vendors, consumer advocates and researchers to share Continue reading →
When the Smart Grid Consumer Collaborative (SGCC) formed earlier this year it understood there was a lack of smart-grid awareness among consumers — survey after survey showed that. What the SGCC didn’t know, apparently, was how to attack the problem. Six months into its existence, the industry group is now launching a study intended to help Continue reading →
The Smart Grid Consumer Collaborative gained nine new members since its launch just three months ago. These new members embody one of SGCC’s key principles — to create a neutral and objective forum where all stakeholders can work together toward a modernized electric power system that is consumer safe and consumer friendly. via Smart Grid Continue reading →
Consumer electronics and technology companies, retailers and consumer advocacy groups, have formed the Smart Grid Consumer Collaborative (SGCC) to build consumer acceptance and use of the smart grid. Launched at DistribuTECH, the SGCC will work to understand consumer needs and preferences, reach out to build awareness and educate consumers about the benefits of the smart Continue reading →
The disgruntled backlash over the installation of smart meters in a couple communities in the U.S. (currently Bakersfield, Calif., and Dallas, Texas) has rattled utilities, tech vendors and smart grid startups. In an attempt to start to create a better way to communicate with and educate consumers about smart grid technology, companies and utilities plan Continue reading →
“Smart Grid” may be a common enough term to folks in cleantech, but most people don’t know anything about it beyond notice that their utility is replacing their old dusty meters with digital smart meters. The lack of market education has led to backlashes and dead ends. But now a group of companies and organizations Continue reading →
As an emerging industry globally, smart grid includes many fresh and vital technologies that are needed to make enormous progress in power grid development. A smart grid sends electricity from power suppliers to end users using digital technology to save energy and increase reliability. This modernized electricity network is being promoted by some governments as Continue reading →
