Electric Ireland and Sustainable Energy Authority of Ireland (SEAI) have this week released full data sets from the recent smart metering trials for electricity customers. The purpose of the trials, which took place during 2009 and 2010 with over 5,000 Irish homes and businesses participating, was to assess the performance of smart meters, their impact Continue reading →
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PG&E plans to start testing home energy gadgets and software starting in March 2012 with a small group of customers, according to plans the utility unveiled details of this week. PG&E plans to work with its smart grid network provider, Silver Spring Networks, for the software part of its home energy trial. For the initial Continue reading →
Sainsbury’s has installed a ‘smart grid’ system at one of it new stores in Kent, enabling the supermarket to reduce strain on the National Grid at peak times, at the same time as reducing its own carbon emissions. The smart grid technology is being adopted by Sainsbury’s for the first time at its store in Continue reading →
Federal Climate Change Minister Penny Wong has scoffed at suggestions the federal government’s multi-million-dollar smart-city, smart-grid trial had been cancelled despite missing a critical deadline. The government had committed up to $100 million to the project to establish a large-scale smart-grid and smart-meters pilot aimed at demonstrating best practise, shape government policy and help industry Continue reading →
Townsville Enterprise Limited (TEL) says north Queensland would be in the international spotlight when it comes to energy efficiency if the Federal Government chooses the city to host a smart grid initiative. TEL spokeswoman Lisa McDonald says the Federal Government has short-listed Townsville as one of three cities to trial the program which will trial Continue reading →
Smart-meter maker Landis+Gyr said Monday it won a deal to supply up to 1 million smart meters to British Gas customers in the United Kingdom’s first major smart -grid trial. The nation hopes to have all residential and business customers of its six major utilities connected to smart meters by the end of the decade. Continue reading →
National Grid has proposed a new “smart grid” project to test new technologies that would allow people to more smartly manage their electricity usage. The project will be located in Syracuse and impact 39,000 customers there. via National Grid proposes new smart grid project only in Syracuse – The Buzz: Business news – Capital Region Continue reading →
A company founded by two former executives of power-grid operator PJM Interconnection has gotten the green light to demonstrate its smart-grid technology on the campus of Drexel University. Viridity Energy Inc., which was started last year by its president and CEO, Audrey Zibelman, and its chief technology officer, Alain P. Steven, will deploy its VPower Continue reading →
Over its 3-year lifetime, Cambridge, UK-based home energy management startup AlertMe has managed to develop a slick hardware design and become one of the first startups to sell its gear to customers. In the past several months since the company decided to focus predominantly on utility sales, however, it had not announced any utility deals. Continue reading →
British Gas today announced plans to create 2600 jobs by 2012 to roll-out smart meters across the country and offer advice about energy efficiency. The announcement came when British Gas managing director Phil Bentley opened a new Energy Academy in Leicester. “Today’s announcement of 2,600 new jobs by 2012 shows we are creating skilled green Continue reading →
Country Energy has foreshadowed a significant body of work ahead between the electricity sector and the Government to work through overlaps between smart grids and the national broadband network. The utility’s general manager for strategy, Ben Hamilton, told an Australian Information Industry Association lunch today that connectivity alternatives for Country Energy’s intelligent network project had Continue reading →
A TRIAL of smart energy meters could start soon as the Bligh Government investigates a plan to make consumers pay more for power at peak times. A meeting of energy ministers in Darwin yesterday was told Queensland intended to unveil a timetable for the smart meter pilot study by the end of the month. The Continue reading →
