BPL Global, a smart grid technology company, has just released version 3.5 of its Connected Energy or CNRG smart grid solution suite designed for advanced distribution automation of the electrical network. According to company sources, the suite streamlines integrated management of smart grid solutions from substations through customer premises. As it is based on a Continue reading →
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eMeter, a leader in Smart Grid management software, today announced that NRGi, one of the largest consumer-owned energy companies in Denmark, has selected eMeter EnergyIP® meter data management platform to improve and scale NRGi’s Smart Grid deployment to over 210,000 meters. In partnership with Eltel, a leading European Infranet provider, eMeter will serve as part Continue reading →
British Gas is set to begin a major rollout of smart meters, fitted with touch screens, to UK homes. The smart meters will show detailed information of a customer’s energy costs in real time, the gas and electricity company said. They will also be portable around the house. via British Gas rolls out touch screen Continue reading →
Saving energy – and cutting energy bills – is on everybody’s mind these days. Some are concerned about peak oil and climate change, while others are more worried about the monthly utility bill. Whether you’re a tree-hugger, a penny-pincher or both, there’s an app for that. Several apps, in fact. via Top apps for monitoring Continue reading →
Oracle was recently ranked as the largest provider of “meter data management” services in the United States by Pike research. The networking-solutions giant is not taking its leadership status for granted. On the contrary, Oracle added a new offering to its smart-grid lineup last week with the “Utilities Network Management System.” via Oracle Makes Life Continue reading →
Siemens Energy is implementing eMeter EnergyIP, a meter data management system (MDMS), members of WPPI Energy, a regional power company serving 51 consumer-owned utilities in Wisconsin, Michigan, and Iowa. Siemens reports it will configure, deliver, and support the project implementation, which began in June. via Siemens Provides eMeter Technology for Regional U.S. Power Company.
The hard-to-budge habits of the American energy consumer claimed another casualty in the smart-grid space last week as Cisco Systems decided to shut down its building energy management business. This adds Cisco Systems to the growing list of companies who tried and failed to convince energy consumers to conserve power. At the end of June, Continue reading →
Colorado-based Green Energy Corp. has been awarded $2,000,000 in American Recovery and Reinvestment Act funding through the Governor’s Energy Office (GEO) to further develop and market the GreenBus smart grid software platform. Recently honored as a 2011 Colorado Company to Watch, Green Energy Corp. has developed GreenBus to help power utilities modernize their operations, increase Continue reading →
Clean Urban Energy, a provider of web-based software designed to improve energy efficiency for commercial buildings, announced Thursday that it has raised $7 million in its first round of funding led by Battery Ventures. via Smart energy management software developer Clean Urban Energy raises $7M | VentureBeat.
I have a confession to make. When most companies come to me to demo their latest energy management gadget or app, I love them … for about a week. Then my interest fades. I’ve been working on energy efficiency for 20 years and care deeply about the issue, but this raises the question: Is it Continue reading →
First Google kills its PowerMeter energy monitor this week. Now Microsoft has announced it will curtail its Hohm energy monitoring/energy saving recommendations site, apparently because not many people were using it. Hohm will be available to users until May 31, 2012. And boy, the “tributes” are rolling in—and I use that term facetiously. Abject ridicule, some of Continue reading →
PlotWatt, a Durham, North Carolina-based developer of home energy management software, was one of five winners of GE’s ecomagination Challenge on June 23, accepting a $100,000 grant. Founded in 2008, PlotWatt offers a free application that features cloud-based algorithms to analyze home energy data and provide appliance-level insight, feedback, and recommendations to help save as much as Continue reading →
Midas Medici Group Holdings Inc. says that its UtiliPoint brand has launched UtiliPoint Analytics, which the company describes as a tool designed to advance smart grid applications, smart meter data management and data-center efficiency solutions. via Renew Grid: Content / Products & Technology / Midas Medici Releases Smart Grid Solution.
Tendril, the energy platform company, today announced it has shipped Tendril Energize, its revolutionary application suite of consumer-facing home energy management tools, to several energy providers including Cape Light Compact, KCP&L and Origin Energy. The Tendril Energize applications are built on Tendril Connect, the company’s cloud-based software platform for utilities, energy service providers, and third Continue reading →
Software technology company Green Energy Corp has released its Smart Grid platform, GreenBus 2.0, which contains new bundled applications such as a GUI- based data viewer and controller; dynamic load reduction control (DLRC), data history, trending, alarming and reporting. GreenBus supports other Smart Grid application developers to build on its core functions, to shorten development Continue reading →
The globally renowned Smart Grid Management software provider eMeter announced that after the successful integration of 308 branded meters into its software, the company is going to kick off the phase two of its pilot program “AMI Deployment and Technology Feasibility Study” in Taiwan. via eMeter Announces Successful Completion Of Phase 1 Of Smart Grid Continue reading →
Green Energy Corp creates software and services for communications and energy companies. They’re working towards an open source smart grid solution that will help both new and old companies in the industry for more efficient, greener energy. via Open standards and a smart energy grid: Interview with Green Energy Corp | opensource.com.
Is the Foursquare, Twitter, or Mint.com of real time energy data just around the corner? GridGlo, a year-old startup working on combining energy data with other big data sets, launched on Wednesday, with a plan to sell apps around energy info to utilities. In addition to launching the company this week, GridGlo also announced a Continue reading →
Jon Wellinghoff, the chairman of the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC), noted that “[demand response] is clearly the ‘killer app’ for the Smart Grid.” Since utilities across the country are implementing new rate structures with the deployment of Smart Grid technologies that can leave unprepared facilities with much higher utility bills, it is important for Continue reading →
Here’s an article of guest author Thomas Goette, CEO of the Green IT startup GreenPocket. Up to 2020, large utilities around the world will be investing billions in the so-called Smart Grid. This intelligent electric grid will significantly increase energy efficiency by sharing information between utilities and consumers. Based on this new sphere of data, Continue reading →
