Via greentechmedia this week comes news of an smart meter/smart thermostat initiative by Oklahoma Gas & Electric that has exceeded all expectations in terms of energy and money savings. The demand-response initiative, which signed up 40,000 customers in its first year, taps customers into the smart grid by way of a smart meter and a programmable thermostat, Continue reading →
First Utility, the UK’s largest independent energy supplier, today announced that it has appointed Siemens Metering, Communications and Services to deliver, install and maintain both smart and standard domestic meters across the UK. Siemens will support First Utility’s mission to use technology to help consumers get better visibility and control of their energy usage and Continue reading →
Small cap broadband technology provider NetComm Wireless has snared a $12.5?million contract to supply utility company SP AusNet with 3G equipment for one of Australia’s first smart meter deployments. NetComm will, through integration partner Ericsson, provide communications card equipment for a statewide rollout of smart electricity meters in Victoria. Under Victorian government policy, all old Continue reading →
McAfee says it will sign an informal agreement with a major European utility company to establish a set of privacy and security standards before the wider rollout of smart meters. The strandards will aim to help protect consumer data generated by smart meters in homes. It comes ahead of a Europe-wide plan to install smart meters Continue reading →
Toshiba Corp. has announced that it will work with Tokyo Electric Power Co. to create a communication system for the utility’s smart meter rollout of 27 million units in the next decade. via Renew Grid: Content / New & Noteworthy / Toshiba Supplying Communication System For 27 Million Smart Meters.
Put on a hat and pour yourself a mint julep because it’s post time for this week’s smart grid derby. Our stable of winners includes Toshiba, selected to help TEPCO with its smart meter deployment, and Echelon, which has a gig in Zimbabwe. Scroll down and jump over to page 2 to see who else Continue reading →
The concept of a smart home will be crucial to selling the benefits of smart meters to consumers, according to research by YouGov for Telefonica UK (O2). Smart homes will allow consumers to remotely manage their home appliances such as lights, heating, oven, TV and more. via Smart home vision critical to smart meter success Continue reading →
Several Central & Eastern Europe (CEE) countries represent compelling opportunities for smart grid investments but are often overshadowed by their Western European neighbors. Smart meter spending alone in the CEE region will reach $10.3 billion cumulatively by 2023, with almost all electric utilities completing full smart meter deployments over that time period. A new study Continue reading →
Central and Eastern Europe’s smart meter spending is forecast to hit $10.3 billion cumulatively by 2023, according to smart grid intelligence and consulting firm Northeast Group, LLC. While the drivers for each country in the region are different, EU regulations and a need for advanced metering infrastructure technology seem to be taking precedence. via Smart Continue reading →
Pacific Gas and Electric Co. (PG&E) is using technology from Teradata to build its new Interval Data Analytics (IDA) platform, which will enable PG&E business users to analyze smart meter data using visualization and data mining tools. via Renew Grid: Content / Products & Technology / Pacific Gas and Electric Driving Smart Meter Analytics with Continue reading →
General Electric has long been a major smart meter maker, but the vast majority of those meters use communications networks built by someone else. On Thursday, GE finally launched its own AMI communications solution — and it has picked On-Ramp Wireless as its networker. Thursday’s announcement names the San Diego startup as the wireless technology Continue reading →
In this week’s smart grid news, we’ve got Elster emerging as a contender in the cellular smart grid space, and new projects from Itron and Echelon in two of the world’s up-and-coming smart grid markets. Let’s take Itron’s new project in South Africa first. On Monday, the Liberty Lake, Wash.-based smart meter maker announced a Continue reading →
Are you worried about smart meter tampering? Whether you can afford a new SCADA system? How about the challenges of monitoring and managing disparate energy assets? Scroll down and onto page 2 for a look at new solutions to these worries plus a few others that may be nagging at you. As a bonus, we’ve Continue reading →
Smart phone. Smart meter. Smart grid. Seems like everything’s getting an intelligence boost these days. It’s easy to assume that smarter means better. Figuring out what makes these new technologies better than their predecessors, and how they will impact real individuals and families isn’t so simple. via Homeowner? Here’s Why You Should Care About The Smart Continue reading →
Smart meter roll-out delayed so long that new ‘smarter’ technology could supersede it. With every day the roll-out of smart meter technology is delayed, there is every chance it will be superseded by even ‘smarter’ technology that shows households how much energy they use and how to manage their consumption. via New technology could make Continue reading →
The government has today revealed fresh details on how it plans to manage the national roll-out of smart meters, confirming that it will launch a new Central Delivery Body to help tackle privacy concerns and ensure consumers embrace the technology. Speaking at the Smart Metering Forum in London, recently appointed energy minister Baroness Verma reiterated Continue reading →
Ahead of its public outreach campaign, the Guam Power Authority held its first village meter on its Smart Meter program, addressing concerns raised by residents and explaining the benefits it will have for customers. Hoping to educate on the facts and break the myths of the hysteria surrounding its Smart Grid program and Smart Meter Continue reading →
Smart meter applications require consistent improvements to be made upon existing technologies integrated within current systems. Tamperproof components that meet IP67 rating standards are crucial to proper operation of smart meters. In order to keep consumer costs low, smart meter designers only work with standard offering components from trusted manufacturers. Components designed into smart meter Continue reading →
A two-year study of smart-metered households with plug-in hybrid vehicles found that users rarely took advantage of online feedback to control their vehicle charging, but managed their electricity use in other ways. Combining both household and vehicle data in a smart-grid context, RASEI (CU-Boulder’s Renewable and Sustainable Energy Institute) claims its study is the first Continue reading →
Enabling developers to add multiple connectivity, processor and metrology options to their smart meter designs, Texas Instruments Incorporated (TI) (NASDAQ: TXN) today announced a modular and scalable Smart Meter Board (SMB) development platform that supports one-phase to three-phase smart electricity meters with the smart grid’s most prolific communications protocols. The Smart Meter Board is an Continue reading →
