The free online mapping tool enables users to identify potential clean energy resource areas within the Eastern Transmission Interconnection. It covers eight energy resources: biomass, clean coal, geothermal, nuclear, solar, storage, waterand wind. via Smart Grid: New mapping tool shows best spots to develop renewables.
Since January, 2012, BMW has been field-testing 700 electric ActiveE cars. Now the company wants you to see what sort of mileage and data those experimental cars are accumulating, and on Thursday rolls out an online digital tool it calls “Electronaut Effect” to do just that. The site was created to popularize the company’s electric Continue reading →
Open source software — code that’s free for anyone to use, as long as they share what they’re doing with it — plays a small, but growing, role in the smart grid. Examples include OpenADR, a Berkeley Labs-California Energy Commission-backed standard for automating demand response, and OpenPDC, a Tennessee Valley Authority’s Hadoop-based data management tool Continue reading →
San Diego Gas & Electric customers can now purchase and install home area network devices to see how much energy they are using in near real-time and help identify high energy use appliances. With in-home energy display devices connected to their electric smart meters, SDG&E customers have access to a new tool to help them Continue reading →
Stop by booth #3341 at DistribuTECH for a demo of NTS-AT’s SETest test tool. SETest lets you perform testing and pre-certification using the same tools used internally by NTS-AT to perform ZigBee certification testing. Over 90% of the certified ZigBee Smart Energy products have been tested using SETest. In addition, numerous utilities are using SETest Continue reading →
San Diego Gas & Electric customers can now purchase and install home area network devices to see how much energy they are using in near real-time and help identify high energy use appliances. With in-home energy display devices connected to their electric smart meters, SDG&E customers have access to a new tool to help them Continue reading →
San Diego Gas & Electric (SDG&E) customers can now purchase and install home area network devices to see how much energy they are using in near real-time and help identify high energy use appliances. With in-home energy display devices connected to their electric smart meters, SDG&E customers have access to a new tool to help Continue reading →
In addition to the services that NTS-AT provides to manufacturers and utilities in terms of certification and testing, NTS-AT has also developed a custom test harness used to perform validation and testing of ZigBee Smart Energy devices. NTS-AT’s test harness (SETest) is based on the latest version of the ZigBee Smart Energy profile specification (version Continue reading →
San Diego Gas & Electric (SDG&E) customers can now purchase and install home area network devices to see how much energy they are using in near real-time and help identify high energy use appliances. With in-home energy display devices connected to their electric smart meters, SDG&E customers have access to a new tool to help Continue reading →
Two Florida utilities pick metering partners, TVA taps a new residential audit tool, PJM Interconnection picks a FERC Order 755 compliant solution to meet surging demand and San Diego Zoo is using locally produced PV panels. via Smart Grid: Smart grid wins: Some industry stalwarts top the charts this week.
A one-of-a-kind, high-tech modeling tool designed to simulate different situations on the electric power grid will be on display at the White House today. The result of a multi-year funding effort by the U.S. Department of Energy’s Office of Electricity Delivery and Energy Reliability, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory researchers will join Energy Secretary Steven Chu Continue reading →
V. S. K. Murthy Balijepalli, Research Scholar, IIT Bombay, has developed a tool that will lead to more efficient management of the energy sector in India. A Bachelor of Technology graduate in electrical engineering, he was concerned by the heavy power distribution losses that afflict our country and started toying with the ways to better Continue reading →
Capstone Turbine Corp (Nasdaq:CPST), a leading manufacturer of microturbines, has launched an iPad app that promotes the company and also serves as a unique tool that clarifies savings available through renewable energy. “Capstone World 2.0″ allows anyone around the world to – with just a few quick keystrokes on an iPad – to determine the potential savings in Continue reading →
Researchers probing the security of smart-grid technology presented their results at the Black Hat Briefings, and released a tool to help spot vulnerabilities in new smart meters. “People are going to be messing with the meters,” said Don C. Weber, senior security analyst at InGuardians. The software tool, called OptiGuard, can help equipment vendors and Continue reading →
Oncor has launched The Green Button as part of a national initiative to provide its customers with a tool that will enable them to monitor and manage their energy usage level in order to save energy and reduce their electricity bills. The Green Button was launched on Smart Meter Texas Portal of the state. This Continue reading →
Cyber security is of course a major issue for utilities. The risks, the potential vulnerabilities, the investments. And probably that nagging question: Is our security as good as we think it is? A new tool from the Energy Department, the Cyber Security Self-Evaluation Survey Tool, has been released to help utilities answer that question. Part Continue reading →
In the wake of the first ever European Energy Efficiency Deal last week ensuring a 15 % energy saving by 2020 Kamstrup and GridManager have announced that they will integrate GridManager’s Demand/Response solution, targeted industrial customers, with Kamstrup’s Advanced Metering Infrastructure solution. The result is a plug-and-play Smart Grid application, which actively monitors and manages Continue reading →
A first-of-its-kind self-evaluation model and survey will provide utilities with a way to benchmark and measure their cybersecurity readiness. Announced today by U.S. Energy Secretary Steven Chu, the Electricity Sector Cybersecurity Capability Maturity Model, or ES-C2M2, and evaluation survey will help utilities assess their own level of cybersecurity. Available online, the model provides a common Continue reading →
PowerMatching City, the world’s first total-concept smart grid deployment project, has been put on the Sustainia100 list of solutions. Sustainia100 is a tool for those interested in creating sustainable societies. The Netherlands’ PowerMatching City is the first real-life smart grid community in the world delivering the world’s first results from a total-concept smart grid deployment Continue reading →
Utilities, which have sometimes struggled to encourage consumers to be more energy efficient, may have found a handy new tool in Nest Labs. The smart thermostat maker said yesterday it has been working “behind the scenes” with Reliant, a Texas-based retail energy provider that will offer a Nest thermostat to customers who sign on for Continue reading →
